Overview

• Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes ordered Ábrego García’s release from Tennessee custody, allowing him to rejoin his family in Maryland under monitoring conditions.
• ICE notified his lawyers it intends to remove him to Uganda and directed him to report to the agency’s Baltimore office on Monday, consistent with a 72‑hour notice requirement ordered by Judge Paula Xinis.
• Prosecutors previously floated a plea that would have sent him to Costa Rica; his defense rejected the offer and he was released to await trial.
• Ábrego García has pleaded not guilty to federal human‑smuggling charges stemming from a 2022 traffic stop, and his attorneys have moved to dismiss the case as retaliatory.
• A 2019 immigration‑court ruling barred his return to El Salvador based on a well‑founded fear of persecution, and his lawyers allege he was abused during detention at El Salvador’s CECOT prison, claims Salvadoran officials deny.