WASHINGTON — Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from custody in Tennessee on Friday, allowing him to return home to Maryland while he faces federal charges of human smuggling and likely efforts by the Trump administration to deport him.

"Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free," his attorney, Sean Hecker, told WUSA9. "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. He is grateful that his access to American courts has provided meaningful due process."

Abrego Garcia’s grant of relative freedom, his first since he was unlawfully deported to El Salvador in March in

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