Kilmar Abrego Garcia , who was wrongfully deported by the administration of United States President Donald Trump, has been released from a jail in Tennessee.

Abrego Garcia was released on Friday and will rejoin his family in Maryland while he awaits the beginning of a trial based on allegations of human smuggling by the Trump administration, according to his lawyer.

The detention of Abrego Garcia, who remained held in an El Salvador prison known for abusive conditions even after the government admitted he had been mistakenly deported, became a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s push for mass deportations with little semblance of due process.

The government, faced with a court order, brought Abrego Garcia back to the US in June, despite previously claiming it had no authority to

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