The lawyers for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia said that government officials tried to coerce him into pleading guilty to criminal charges or face deportation to Uganda.

Abrego Garcia, a Maryland construction worker who was deported to El Salvador and then returned to the U.S. to face smuggling charges, was released from prison in Tennessee on Friday. His release comes under a judge's order that set the terms of release pending a trial date currently scheduled for January 2026.

Attorneys indicated earlier this month that they would arrange private security to accompany Abrego Garcia from Tennessee, where he was held, to Maryland, where he lives with his wife and child. But federal authorities have signaled that, even though they brought Abrego Garcia back to the U.S., they may seek to have

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