CBS News Live CBS News 24/7 Live Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from Putnam County Jail in Tennessee on Friday and has been reunited with his family while he awaits trial, according to his attorney. It’s the latest development in the case of a man who was mistakenly removed from the U.S. to an El…
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked a federal judge on Tuesday to dismiss a human smuggling case against him, saying the government was prosecuting the Maryland construction worker to punish him for challenging his removal to El Salvador. Their motion filed in court said attempts to dismiss indictments on the grounds of “selective or vindictive…
Washington — A lawyer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the mistakenly deported man who was recently brought back from El Salvador to face charges in the U.S., said his case is bigger than one individual. Chris Newman, who represents Abrego Garcia’s family, told CBS News’ Major Garrett in an interview that he does not see the…
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was wrongly deported and then returned to the United States to face federal prosecution, pleaded not guilty to charges that he allegedly participated in a yearslong conspiracy to smuggle undocumented migrants into the country, according to the Associated Press. Abrego Garcia faces one count of conspiracy to transport aliens and…
Federal prosecutors told a judge Thursday that the government plans to initiate removal proceedings against Kilmar Abrego Garcia and to deport him to a country that is not El Salvador upon his release. But the prosecutors also said that they would comply with all court orders and that they’re plans are not imminent. Attorneys for…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge on Sunday ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, while he awaits a federal trial on human smuggling charges. But he is not expected to be allowed to go free. At his June 13 detention…