A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that a Salvadoran migrant at the heart of the debate over Donald Trump’s border security policies must be released from jail while he awaits trial on human smuggling charges.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes ruled in Nashville on June 22 that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29, cannot remain in detention, denying the federal government’s request. The judge set a June 25 hearing in Nashville to determine the conditions of Abrego Garcia’s release.

In a 51-page ruling, Holmes said the federal government “failed to meet its burden of showing a properly supported basis for detention on grounds that (Abrego Garcia) poses an irremediable danger to the community or is likely not to appear."

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    ICE is just gonna detain hum instead as an illegal immigrant.

    As long as this administration has power, he’ll never be free to walk on Americam soil. They’ll just end up deporting him to a different torture prison that isn’t in El Salvador when he’s aquitted, since they actually do have legal justification for deporting him to anyone that will take him that isnt El Salvador.