A US federal judge on Thursday ordered the immediate release of a Salvadoran man who was wrongly deported in March and then returned to the United States after months of legal battles and detained again.

The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident married to an American woman, has become a lightning rod for those opposed to President Donald Trump's efforts to carry out mass deportations across the country.

He was among more than 200 people sent to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison in March. The Trump administration alleges he is a violent MS-13 gang member involved in smuggling other undocumented migrants, which he denies.

After his return to the United States in June, Abrego Garcia was detained again in Tennessee on human smuggling charges. He was then released under strict con

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