Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be released from custody Wednesday
Source: The Hill
07/16/25 10:03 AM ET
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) A federal judge could decide to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia from jail Wednesday to await trial on human smuggling charges.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29, was deported to a prison in El Salvador in March and was brought back to the U.S. to face charges of human smuggling following a Tennessee traffic stop. Hes accused of conspiring to bring undocumented migrants to the U.S. from around 2016 to 2025.
The charges stem from a traffic stop by the Tennessee Highway Patrol in Putnam County in 2022. Body camera video shows officers discussing among themselves their suspicions of human smuggling before letting Abrego Garcia go free. He was not charged with any offense at the traffic stop before he was deported in March and returned on June 6.
On Wednesday, prosecutors are expected to have a homeland security agent provide testimony about the traffic stop. The judge is expected to then rule on whether Abrego Garcia should be released while he awaits trial. Immigration officials have said they would immediately detain him and begin deportation proceedings.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5403693-kilmar-abrego-garcia-could-be-released-from-custody-wednesday/

sop
(15,247 posts)underpants
(191,559 posts)This is painfully embarrassing for Trump. It will be worse, amongst the non-cult, if he gets to tell his story.
Lovie777
(19,391 posts)Still on the table?
johnnyfins
(2,466 posts)Anything to keep Epstein out of the news.
Jim__
(14,803 posts)Best_man23
(5,261 posts)Canada, Netherlands, anywhere that will take him and his family in and give them protection against the Convicted Felon's goon squad. If ICE gets him, I'm afraid Kilmar Abrego Garcia will be (and I don't use this word lightly) renditioned somewhere where the Federal Courts won't be able to find him. They will not take him back to CECOT, or to Alligator Auschwitz, they will take him completely "off the grid."
One earlier post was spot on, the Convicted Felon's Junta cannot afford Abrego Garcia getting in front of news cameras.