Overview

• He is traveling to reunite with his family in Maryland, his attorney said, after being unlawfully removed to El Salvador and later held in U.S. custody.
• A Tennessee federal judge ordered his pretrial release on July 23, and he remains charged with human smuggling tied to allegedly bringing migrants without papers into the United States.
• Government lawyers acknowledged his March removal was an administrative error after he had previously been granted protection from deportation in 2019.
• He was among more than 250 people flown to El Salvador on March 15 and confined at the CECOT high‑security prison before courts required his return to the United States in June.
• The White House labeled him a criminal and MS‑13 member despite a lack of cited evidence in reports, and officials said he will be monitored with an electronic ankle device.