NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia walked out of a Tennessee jail Friday and is on his way back to Maryland after a judge issued a new release order on the same day his 30-day stay on release was set to expire.

Magistrate Judge Barbara D. Holmes filed her order releasing Abrego Garcia pending trial, allowing him to return to his family while awaiting human smuggling charges in Nashville.

Abrego Garcia's attorney Sean Hecker sent a statement this afternoon declaring that Abrego Garcia was free.

"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," Hec

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