A federal judge on Sunday ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia pending trial on human smuggling charges, while acknowledging that the Salvadoran national may still be taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody upon release.
Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, was returned to the United States earlier this month after a court ruling determined he should not have been deported to his home country in March.
He was indicted on May 21 on charges of smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States and conspiring with others to commit the crime, charges to which he has pleaded not guilty….