A judge has ordered “Maryland Man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be released on bail pending his criminal trial on human-smuggling charges.
Saturday’s decision by Tennessee Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes does not necessarily mean Garcia will be allowed to return home to his family. Instead, he is likely to be placed in immigration detention, since he is an illegal immigrant.
Garcia was brought back to the US from El Salvador by the Department of Justice at the beginning of the month to face human-smuggling charges. Prosecutors claim Garcia made hundreds of trips from the US-Mexico border to deliver illegal aliens across the US.
Garcia is said to have worked “full time” as a people-smuggler, earning as much as $1500 per trip.
Two witnesses testified that smugglers would charge migrants from Central and South America as much as $8,000 for passage into the US. Once in the US, Garcia would transport them across the US to their destinations.
The allegations were shared during a pre-trial hearing in a Nashville court, at which Garcia entered a “not guilty” plea in relation to people-smuggling charges.
The charges stem from a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee.
garcia is not a Maryland man, he is an illegal living in Maryland. There’s a difference.
It pisses me off when they call that thug as Maryland man!!! He is an illegal POS from El Salvadore.