El Salvador declines to return Garcia
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More TACO. After all of the “he’ll never be returned!” talk.
He has been returned.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcias-release-ordered-remain-detained-ice/
A Tennessee judge on Sunday ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation has become a flashpoint in President Trump's immigration crackdown, while he awaits a federal trial on human smuggling charges. But he is not expected to be allowed to go free.
At his June 13 detention hearing, prosecutors said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would take Abrego Garcia into custody if he were released on the criminal charges, and he could be deported before he has a chance to stand trial.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday to discuss the conditions of Abrego Garcia's release. The U.S. government has already filed a motion to appeal the judge's release order.
Holmes acknowledged in her ruling Sunday that determining whether Abrego Garcia should be released is "little more than an academic exercise" because ICE will likely detain him. But the judge wrote that everyone is entitled to the presumption of innocence and "a full and fair determination of whether he must remain in federal custody pending trial."
Holmes wrote that the government failed to prove that Abrego was a flight risk, that he posed a danger to the community or that he would interfere with proceedings if released.
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Few things summarize the laziness of the Trump administration more than this situation. And for all of their "he will NEVER EVER EVER 4REALZ EVER come back to the USA" talk, here he is...about to go to a McDonalds and a movie.
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President Donald Trump's administration is planning to deport migrant Kilmar Abrego for a second time, but does not plan to send him back to El Salvador, where he was wrongly deported in March, a lawyer for the administration told a judge on Thursday.
The deportation will not happen until after Abrego is tried in federal court on migrant smuggling charges, a White House spokesperson said.
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The Trump administration has told Kilmar Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man at the centre of a long-running immigration row, he could be deported to the southern African kingdom of Eswatini.
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The final order of removal against illegal immigrant and accused MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia will stand after an immigration judge rejected a motion from his attorneys to reopen the case Wednesday.
In August, Abrego Garcia’s attorneys had petitioned to reopen the case due to fears that he was at risk of “imminent removal to Uganda” after the Department of Homeland Security notified them that he may get deported to the African country.
“The word ‘may’ is permissive,” Regional Deputy Chief Immigration Judge Philip Taylor wrote in his opinion.
“[It] indicates to the Court that in sending this notification to Respondent’s counsel, the Department sought to convey that it reserved the right to remove him to Uganda, not necessarily that it intended to do so, that it had decided to do so, or that it would do so imminently.”
Kilmar Garcia and his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura among a crowd of supporters.
