The U.S. Department of Homeland Security vowed never to allow Kilmar Abrego Garcia to “go free on American soil,” after a judge ordered his release from detention pending an immigration trial.
The fight over the fate of the accused gang member who had been living in Maryland has come to symbolize the opposition of Democrats to the mass deportation efforts of the Trump administration.
‘We have said it for months and it remains true to this day: he will never go free on American soil.’
On Sunday, the Trump administration was dealt a blow in that struggle when U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes ruled that the government had not proven its contention that Garcia was a flight risk and ordered his release.
“Overall, the Court cannot find from the
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