Abrego Garcia’s attorneys expressed concern that his release would lead to immediate detention by ICE and deportation
Kilmar Abrego Garcia will remain in jail for now after fears that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will swoop to deport him as soon as he is released.
Abrego Garcia’s attorneys expressed concern that his release would lead to immediate detention by ICE and deportation.
A federal judge ruled the Salvadoran father, who was criminally accused of human smuggling, has a right to be released and even set specific conditions.
But he will remain in jail for at least a few more days while attorneys spar over whether prosecutors can prevent Abrego Garcia’s deportation if he is released to await trial.
It’s sort of a monkey’s paw luck, though. The whole reason MAGA is so rabidly obsessed with getting this guy is because he has the media coverage. They made a big dramatic show out of declaring that he’ll “never walk free on American soil again” and now find themselves scrambling to do anything they can to prevent that, regardless of reason.