a judge ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia arrived at his Maryland home Thursday after being released from ICE custody in Pennsylvania following a judge's order. The Salvadoran native, who was detained last March after his shift as a sheet metal worker in Baltimore and mistakenly deported to El Salvador,
Judge Paula Xinis found that the Trump administration redetained the Salvadoran father of three “without lawful authority.”
The native of El Salvador and resident of Maryland has become a symbol of the Trump administration's policy of mass deportations after he was mistakenly sent to a prison in El Salvador in the spring.