Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from criminal custody in Tennessee on Friday, the latest development in a dramatic legal saga surrounding the wrongly deported Maryland father of three.

This marks the first time he has not been imprisoned since the Trump administration deported him to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador in March and later brought him back to the US to face human smuggling charges.

Since being returned to the US in June to face the pair of federal charges, Abrego Garcia has been behind bars in Tennessee, where he successfully convinced two federal judges to order his release while he awaits trial.

But even as Abrego Garcia walked out of a jail in Tennessee Friday afternoon to make his way back to Maryland, where he was living and working before the Trump administ

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