Overview

• The filing describes beatings, sleep deprivation, forced kneeling and psychological torture that left Abrego Garcia 31 pounds lighter after his mistaken March deportation to CECOT.
• Abrego Garcia remains jailed in Tennessee after pleading not guilty to federal human smuggling charges and faces potential re-deportation to a third country.
• His legal team argues the Trump administration violated a 2019 protection-from-removal order and Supreme Court directives by deporting him to El Salvador.
• President Nayib Bukele released photos and video challenging the torture claims and contending Abrego Garcia did not suffer abuse or weight loss.
• The case underscores tensions between executive deportation authority under the Alien Enemies Act and judicial orders safeguarding due process.