They release in the US Kilmar Ábrego García, the migrant who was erroneously deported to El Salvador

Kilmar Ábrego when he is released — Photo foot, Ábrego was released in Tennessee, where he was arrested for almost two months.

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The Migrant of Salvadoran origin Kilmar Abrego García, whose illegal deportation in March to his native country generated great controversy in the US, left the prison in which he had been detained for two months in the state of Tennessee, his defense reported Friday.

“Today, Kilmar Ábrego García is free,” said the lawyer Sean Hecker. Ábrego has planned to return home in Maryland.

The defense has also requested federal judge Waverly Crenshaw to dismiss the positions of human traffic filed against him when he was returned to the US from El Salvador, arguing that prosecutors accused him in retaliation for submitting a lawsuit against his illegal deportation.

Abrego, 30, was deported to El Salvador on March 15 despite an immigration court in 2019 ruled that he was not sent to his country of origin due to the risk of violence he faced by local gangs.

His case acquired national relevance for the controversy that caused the decision of the Trump government to send without due process to more than 200 migrants, most of them Venezuelans, to a high security prison in El Salvador.

A federal official acknowledged that the Ábrego deportation was an “administrative error.”

After a political and legal battle, last June he was returned to the US, but when he arrived in US territory he was accused of transporting undocumented migrants in the country.

Judge Crenshaw confirmed another judge, Barbara Holmes last month, that Abrego was released provisional, considering that he did not represent a danger to the community or there was a risk of escape.

However, Holmes delayed his release at the request of his defense one month, who fears that once he is released in front of a detention by the immigration authorities and is sent to a third country.

The District Judge Paula Xinis, who supervises the civil lawsuit of Ábrego against the legality of his deportation, has ordered that the federal government notice three days before sending it to a third country, to give them the opportunity to challenge their expulsion.

Trump government officials have said they could try to deport it to Mexico or South Sudan.

People in a protest in favor of Kilmar Abrego — Photo foot, The case of Kilmar Abrego motivated protests against Trump's immigration policies in the US

What accusations face?

Ábrego lived in the state of Maryland (Northeast of the United States) when he was deported by mistake in March and became a voltage focus amid the migratory offensive of President Trump.

He was admitted to the Center for Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) of El Salvador, where, he says, he suffered from violence and abuse by the prison authorities.

He declared that he was “severely beaten, deprived of sleep and psychologically tortured” during the almost three months he spent in the Cecot.

In June, the Department of Justice indicated that it had returned it to the US to be tried for having participated for years in a conspiracy for the traffic of undocumented immigrants as a member of the MS-13 gang.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said on June 6 that the migrant would be deported again after his criminal case concludes: “Once he serves his sentence,” Bondi said on June 6, “we foresee that he will be returned to his country of origin, El Salvador.”

Prisoners in El Salvador Cecot — Photo foot, Ábrego was interlated three months in the Cecot of El Salvador.

According to the Attorney General, a grand jury in Tennessee determined that Abrego García played an “important role” in a network of persons. and that this was his “full -time work.”

He was accused of making more than 100 trips for the traffic of people throughout the country, bringing thousands of irregular immigrants to the United States, according to Bondi, in addition to trafficked weapons and narcotics to the United States.

Ábrego declared himself not guilty of these positions and his defense since then has asked the protection of his client to avoid his detention and quick deportation to his country of origin or some third country.