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Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in jail as lawyers spar over potential deportation if he is released pending trial

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is set to remain in jail for several more days as lawyers debate whether the Justice Department can stop him from being deported if he is released from federal custody pending his trial.

The judge set a hearing for July 16 to consider the government's bid to revoke the release order.

A Salvadoran man was deported back to his home country and then returned to the U.S. for federal prosecution.

The judge said the government put forth "hearsay statements" from cooperating witnesses who stand "to gain something from their testimony in this case" One of the cooperators has two felony convictions, has been deported five times and was released early from a 30-month prison sentence for human smuggling for providing information to the government in Abrego Garcia's case.

The second cooperator is an "avowed member of the human smuggling organization".