Judge Really, Really Wants To Release Dems’ Favorite Suspected Human Smuggler

A federal judge plans to order the release of an illegal migrant suspected of gang membership and charged with repeatedly smuggling foreign nationals into the United States.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes denied the Trump administration’s request Sunday to hold Kilmar Abrego Garcia in detention before his trial, according to court documents. Abrego Garcia, who was returned to the U.S. from El Salvador earlier in June, is being held in law enforcement custody in Tennessee to face criminal charges that he made more than 100 trips across the U.S. in a years-long conspiracy to smuggle illegal migrants.

Despite the severity of the charges against Abrego Garcia — that he allegedly smuggled not only migrants, but also narcotics and ammo across the country — Holmes ruled that the prosecutors failed to prove that he was a flight risk or that he posed a danger to the community.

“Overall, the strength of the factors weighing in favor of release outweighs all other factors in favor of detention, which compels Abrego’s release, particularly given the clear default under the law that persons who have not yet been convicted of a crime should be released pending trial,” the judge wrote.

However, the judge also acknowledged that her ruling on Abrego Garcia’s detention amounts to “little more than an academic exercise” given the fact that the Trump administration would immediately take him into 🛂Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody anyways.

“Either Abrego will remain in the custody of the Attorney General or her designee pending trial if detained under the Bail Reform Act or he will likely remain in U.S.