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Salvador Man At Center Of Trump Deportations Row Freed

Hundreds of Venezuelan and Salvadoran nationals were sent from the United States to the notorious maximum security CECOT facility in El Salvador (Credit: AFP)

A wrongly deported Salvadoran man returned to the US during a fierce row over President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies was released Friday from prison, where he had been detained on human smuggling charges, his lawyer told AFP.

The US Supreme Court had ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after he was mistakenly deported in March to a notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador.

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