A federal judge ordered Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be released from custody on Thursday night, making for the latest major setback in the Trump administration’s bigoted immigration agenda.

Abrego Garcia’s release was ordered after U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ruled that the administration could not detain the Maryland resident any longer.

“I stand before you a free man and I want you to remember me this way, with my head held up high,” Abrego Garcia said via a translator at a news conference on Friday, outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. “I come here today with so much hope and I thank God who has been with me since the start with my family.”

Xinis said Abrego Garcia was detained for almost four months by the Trump administration “without lawful author

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