Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man whom the Trump administration wrongfully deported in violation of a judge’s order earlier this year, was released from custody in Tennessee on Friday.

“Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, Sean Hecker, said. “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.”

The Trump administration acknowledged that its deportation of Garcia to languish in a prison camp in El Salvador in March was the result of an “administrative er

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