Federal judge denies detention for alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia

A federal judge in Tennessee has denied the government’s request to hold Kilmar Abrego Garcia in continued detention while his criminal case proceeds.

Abrego Garcia is a Salvadorian migrant who was erroneously deported to El Salvador before being returned to the U.S. to face federal prosecution on charges of trafficking undocumented migrants and conspiring with others to do so.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes denied the government’s request to hold Abrego Garcia, though he will...