Fred D. Thompson Federal Courthouse Kilmer Abrego Garcia is scheduled to be arrested. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee lookout) John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout by Photose

Kilmer Abrego Garcia, a Trump administration official in Maryland who was mistakenly deported to a Salvador prison, is scheduled to be arrested today in downtown Nashville Courtroom as immigration rights advocates, union leaders and clergy gather at nearby churches and show of support and protest.

Abrego Garcia has the opportunity to plead for two criminal charges of alien smuggling. The magistrate will also consider the government’s arguments detaining Abrego Garcia until trial.

His court-appointed public defenders submitted their first written response to the government’s criminal case on Wednesday, claiming that Abrego Garcia should remain free until his trial date, which has not yet been set. The lawyer’s 20-page legal submission focused primarily on previous government controversial actions.

“With no legal process, the US government was illegally detained, deporting Kilmer Abrego Garcia and shipped him to the Centre for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT), one of the most violent and inhuman prisons in the world.

Federal prosecutors in Nashville ask the judge to keep Abrego Garcia in custody until trial

“Abrego Garcia has asked the court for what he has been rejected in the past few months – legitimate proceedings.”

The fate of Abrego Garcia was at the heart of the public’s turbulence over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics, which spills over days of protests in Los Angeles. The Trump administration responded by revitalizing the National Guard and the US Marines.

Immigration rights advocates, clergy and union leaders are expected to gather in solidarity with Abrego Garcia today at a downtown church near federal court “to protect the due process, protect vulnerable communities, and expose dangerous authoritarianism that promotes these abuses.”

On Saturday, a military parade and celebration for President Donald Trump’s birthday is being held in Washington, D.C., so-called “king” protests of Trump administration’s immigration and other policies are being planned nationwide.

Abrego Garcia went home with his 5-year-old son when he was pulled in March. Within a few days he was sent to a prison in El Salvador along with many other detainees.

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Abrego Garcia, an immigrant from El Salvador, came to the United States as a teenager illegally. In 2019, the Immigration Court issued an order allowing people to reside in the United States while an immigration case is under consideration. The order specifically banned the federal government from deporting him to El Salvador, where he feared gang violence, he said.

A Trump administration lawyer later admitted that deportation to El Salvador was false in March.

In April, the Supreme Court ordered the federal government to “promote” the return of Abrego Garcia.

It wasn’t until Friday that Abrego Garcia was eventually returned to the US to face two criminal charges in Nashville.

The price is tied to a 2022 A traffic stop in Putnam County, about 80 miles east of Nashville.

Although Abrego Garcia was not arrested or charged with the suspension, federal prosecutors now claim that subsequent investigations revealed their relationship with the MS-13 gang and plans to illegally smuggle immigrants across the country for financial gain.

Prosecutors at the U.S. Lawyer’s Office in the Central District of Tennessee argued this week that Abrego Garcia should continue to be held until trial due to the seriousness of the crime.

Kilmer Abrego Garcia is accidentally deported to El Salvador prison to face federal charges in Nashville

His alleged human smuggling activities sometimes involve children, and his alleged gang affiliation risks him, and his gang companions, to potential witnesses, and the potential sentences he faces pose a flight risk to him, they also say they claimed that Abrego Garcia would face a certain expulsion to El Salvador if Abrego Garcia was found guilty and gave him further motives.

The defense attorney said Abrego Garcia’s gang affiliation allegations were “basically unfounded” and that he had not been charged with a crime involving a minor victim.

Abrego Garcia has no previous felony convictions, and has no history of avoiding arrests or overbearing witnesses, they wrote.

And they wrote that the government’s illegal deportation of Abrego Garcia in March could give a stronger claim in an immigration lawsuit to fight an attempt to deport him again if he is convicted.

“It’s true, Abrego Garcia was recently illegally deported to El Salvador and trapped in the infamous, inhumane Salvador prison,” they write.

“So he looks like he has now new Seeking basics (either asylum law and/or treaties against torture) addition Protection against deportation to El Salvador. ”

Memorandum of written opposition to government claims for detention hearing