Alleged MS-13 gangbanger and accused human smuggler Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from a Tennessee jail Friday and is bound for his family in Maryland, his lawyer said.
Abrego Garcia walked out of the Putnam County Jail after the Trump administration deported him and then facilitated his return to the US for prosecution on human smuggling charges.
“Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. He is presently en route to his family in Maryland, after being unlawfully arrested and deported, and then imprisoned, all because of the government’s vindictive attack on a man who had the courage to fight back against the Administration’s continuing assault on the rule of law,” his attorney, Sean Hecker, told Fox17.
“He is grateful that his access to American courts has provided meaningful due process,” he added.
A US magistrate judge was expected to grant his release Friday as his federal human smuggling case continues.
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