The government on Sunday appealed a federal judge's order to release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia pending trial on human smuggling charges, another chapter in the saga of the Maryland father who had been erroneously deported to El Salvador.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a Maryland construction worker thrust into national controversy — is at the center of an intensifying

A federal magistrate judge in Tennessee has denied a motion to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March.