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Lawyers ask that Kilmar Abrego Garcia stay in jail to avoid US deportation

Brianna O'Keefe holds a sign in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia outside the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee [File: George Walker IV/AP Photo]

Lawyers representing Kilmar Abrego Garcia have asked a judge in Tennessee to delay his release from jail, in a bid to avoid deportation.

The filing on Monday was the latest turn in the case of Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to his native El Salvador by the administration of President Donald Trump in March, but later returned to the US in June following a Supreme Court order.

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