More than 50 people gathered, including several media outlets and members of the public, outside First Lutheran Church at 113 Eighth Ave. South for a news conference in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia featuring representatives with the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return — and has sparred with government lawyers since then.

Kilmar Armando Abrego García, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March by federal immigration authorities, appeared in federal court Friday to answer charges related to a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee.

Abrego Garcia entered the United States in 2012 and sought asylum in 2019, after he was detained and faced deportation proceedings ... gang member and mocked legal efforts aimed at securing ...

Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia have renewed their push for contempt proceedings. Abrego Garcia returned to the U.S. on June 6 to face federal human smuggling charges after he was deported to El Salvador in March.

They argued that Abrego Garcia's legal team is now "attempting to pry into the privileged inner workings of the U.S. government apparatus and its communications with a foreign government."