Overview

• Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes ordered Abrego Garcia into home detention under his brother’s supervision with location monitoring, travel limits and bans on firearms and gang contact
• The Justice Department appealed Holmes’s release order but U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw refused to stay it and set a July 16 hearing on the appeal
• ICE is poised to take Abrego Garcia into custody for removal proceedings if he is released, curbing the practical impact of the court’s order
• Federal prosecutors charged him with two counts of human smuggling stemming from a November 2022 Tennessee traffic stop, and he has pleaded not guilty
• Abrego Garcia’s wrongful March deportation contradicted a 2019 withholding of removal order, prompting federal and Supreme Court rulings that secured his return this month