Aug. 22 (UPI) -- A federal magistrate judge released El Salvadoran Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody Friday while he awaits trial for alleged human trafficking in Tennessee.
U.S. District Court of Middle Tennessee Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes ordered that Garcia would not have to remain in custody while awaiting to face federal criminal charge in June, He had bee returned from El Salvador after being deported there by mistake, the government said.
Garcia "is presently en route to his family in Maryland after being unlawfully arrested and deported and then imprisoned," said Garcia's attorney, Sean Hecker, as reported by The Guardian.
Hecker accused the Trump administration of engaging in a "vindictive attack on a man who had the courage to fight back against the administration's continuing assault on the rule of law."
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