Kilmar Abrego Garcia will likely be placed in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody due to an immigration detainer the government has on him, despite a Tennessee judge on Sunday ordering his release in his criminal case.
This comes after the mistakenly deported Salvadoran native was brought back to the United States from El Salvador's mega-prison earlier this month. Abrego Garcia faces criminal charges for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S. in what federal prosecutors say was a conspiracy involving the domestic transport of thousands of noncitizens from Mexico and Central America, including some children, in exchange for thousands of dollars.
While U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes' on Sunday denied the government's motion to detain Abrego Garcia, she acknowledged that if released, "there is no suggestion that the action taken by the government will be anything other than detaining him in ICE custody pending further removal proceedings."
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