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.

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 ...

Judge Xinis agreed to grant in part a request from a group of 14 major media outlets and publishers, a major update in the Abrego Garcia case.