Wrongly deported Salvadoran man returned to U.S., charged with human smuggling
The Justice Department said Kilmar Abrego García was in U.S. custody after weeks of resisting court orders to return him to the United States
The wrongly deported Salvadoran man whose removal to a notorious gang prison ignited a standoff between the Trump administration and federal courts has been returned to the United States and charged with human smuggling, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday.The charges against Kilmar Abrego García mean he could face prosecution in the United States and possible deportation to his native El Salvador or another country.
The federal indictment came weeks after the Supreme Court ordered Trump officials to facilitate Abrego García’s return from El Salvador, where Justice Department lawyers admitted he’d been erroneously sent. The president, his lawyers and Cabinet members had resisted bringing him back, but officials said Friday he was in U.S. custody and back on American soil.
The 2022 incident in Tennessee that appears to have led to the indictment initially ended with a warning from local authorities to renew his expired license.
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