Kilmer Abrego Garcia’s supporters protested outside the Federal Court of Fred D. Thompson in Nashville on June 13, when Abrego Garcia made an arrest for the federal charges. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

NASHVILLE – Kilmer Abrego Garcia is scheduled to appear in the courtroom in downtown Nashville today.

However, federal prosecutors continue to fight for him to be taken into custody. On Sunday, a federal magistrate judge issued an order dismissing allegations that Abrego posed a flight risk or risk to the community. The prosecutor immediately informed him that he intends to challenge the order.

If he is released on bonds, Abrego could possibly be taken to immediate custody of immigration and customs enforcement and be deported, prosecutors said.

If Abrego is deported, the United States will “lose a meaningful opportunity to try that case, which will be irreparable harm to the public,” they argued in a legal application filed Tuesday.

Prosecutors are seeking a temporary 30-day suspension of the lawsuit to sue Abrego’s legal claims that he will be detained until trial.

Federal Magistrate Denies Government Claims Detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Abrego Garcia’s family is also expected to appear in Nashville, joining a news release by the Tennessee Immigrants and Refugees Rights Coalition, “requesting justice for due process concerns, vulnerable community advocate Kilmer Abrego Garcia.”

Abrego, a Salvador citizen living in Maryland, served as a symbol of the Trump administration’s tactics of repression of immigrants.

Abrego, a father of three and an apprentice to the Union metal sheet with no criminal history, was sent to a prison in Salvador in March. The 2019 immigration order banned his deportation in particular in El Salvador, where Abrego said he feared gang violence.

Federal prosecutors in Maryland admitted he was mistakenly deported during a hearing about Abrego’s deportation. On Tuesday, the New York Times was one of the press outlets that reported prosecutor Erez Roubeni. Whistleblower complaint filed It allegedly he was questioned by his boss about why Abrego did not claim that he was a terrorist despite lack of evidence. Roubeni was then placed on administrative leave when he refused to register for a legal summary that would make the same claim against Abrego. Leuvenig was then fired.

In April, the Supreme Court ordered federal officials to promote Abrego’s return. Until June 6th, he was flying to Nashville to face criminal charges related to a 2022 Tennessee traffic stop.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia enters an innocence plea while a federal judge complies with his decision on his release

Prosecutors now argue that the 2022 Tennessee traffic stop is part of a national smuggling programme where Abrego was paid to drive immigrants illegally from Texas to other states.

Agents from the Department of Homeland Security testified in April that they began an investigation into a traffic stop three years ago, but Abrego stayed at the Secott prison in El Salvador, after the Supreme Court ordered the government to promote a return to the United States.

Abrego pleaded not guilty to the charges.

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

On her order that denied the prosecutor’s allegations of detention of Abrego, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes expressed skepticism over some of the government’s claims.

Federal prosecutors alleged that the teenager was with many Hispanic men when Abrego was attracted to speeding in Tennessee in 2022. The presence of minors in a crime could be a legal basis for maintaining an individual’s detained trial. They also claimed that Abrego is a gang member who can intimidate potential witnesses. Abrego has not been charged with crimes related to minors or gang activities.

Holmes questioned the credibility of the witnesses and the evidence cited by the prosecutors, noting that some individuals had traded their own crimes and immigration cases in exchange for testimony. She also concluded that some of the government’s claims rely on “multiple layers of hearsay.”