US EditionJudge orders Abrego Garcia released, urges DOJ, DHS to ensure he faces criminal trial
TENNESSEE, JUN 25 – Federal judge orders release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia under home detention and monitoring despite human smuggling charges; government failed to prove flight risk, court records show.
- U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia released on his own recognizance on June 25 in Tennessee while he awaits trial on migrant smuggling charges.
- Abrego's legal troubles started following a speeding stop in December 2022, and although a 2019 judicial ruling prohibited his deportation due to threats from gangs in El Salvador, he was nevertheless sent back to his home country in March.
- The judge imposed strict release conditions including home detention, mental health and anger management counseling, and a ban on contact with co-defendants and known MS-13 members.
- Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes found the government's evidence unreliable, stating the alleged smuggling trips 'approach physical impossibility,' and that the government failed to show Abrego poses irremediable danger or flight risk.
- Abrego's case symbolizes the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and the related rights groups' opposition, while his fate now depends on ICE and DHS decisions about possible deportation or coordination with prosecutors.
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Judge orders release of Abrego Garcia -- eventually
A federal judge ordered the government to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal immigrant at the center of a major deportation and criminal legal battle, from pre-trial detention, though he gave the Justice Department more time to argue over the conditions of release.
'Defies logic': DOJ slammed by judge over request in wrongful deportation case
A federal judge on Wednesday denied the Trump administration's request to pause the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a migrant facing human smuggling charges — and who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador due to an “administrative error” — writing in their decision that the Department of Justice’s case for keeping Garcia incarcerated “defies logic.”Garcia was arrested without trial and wrongly deported in March despite not having been charged …
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