Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from a Tennessee jail on Friday, more than five months after he was detained by ICE in Maryland, flown to a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador and became a worldwide face of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

Abrego walked out of Putnam County Jail in Cookeville at about 2:05 p.m. CT. He awaits trial on federal human smuggling charges.

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“Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” attorney Sean Hecker said in a statement. “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 assau

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