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Man wrongly deported from US to El Salvador released after months in federal custody
A man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration has been released from federal custody for the first time since March.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29 and originally from El Salvador, is facing charges of conspiring to transport illegal immigrants into the US. Mr Garcia has been detained since his arrest in Maryland - where he lived with his American wife and child - by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in March.
Under a controversial 18th-century law he was then deported to El Salvador, where he was imprisoned in its notorious maximum security Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). This was despite an immigration judge's 2019 order granting him protection from deportation after finding he was likely to be persecuted by local gangs if he was returned to his native country.
Democrat senator Chris Van Hollen, who met Mr Garcia in CECOT, said the 29-year-old was "traumatised" by the experience. The Trump administration admitted that deporting Mr Garcia was an "administrative error.
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