Mistakenly deported man Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to US to face charges
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador by the Trump administration, has returned to the United States to face criminal charges of transporting illegal immigrants to the US, Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Friday.
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Abrego Garcia faces two criminal counts in an indictment filed in federal court in Tennessee on May 21, more than two months after Abrego Garcia's March 15 deportation, court records showed.
Bondi said Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele agreed to return Abrego Garcia to the US after US officials presented his government with an arrest warrant.
'The grand jury found that over the past nine years, Abrego Garcia has played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring,' Bondi said in a press conference.
In a statement, Abrego Garcia's lawyer, Andrew Rossman, said it would now be up to the US judicial system to ensure he received due process.
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'Today's action proves what we've known all along – that the administration had the ability to bring him back and just refused to do so,' said Rossman, a partner at law firm Quinn Emanuel.
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