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    Home - UK News - Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Man wrongly deported from US to El Salvador has been returned to face criminal charges

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Man wrongly deported from US to El Salvador has been returned to face criminal charges

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Man wrongly deported from US to El Salvador has been returned to face criminal charges

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Man wrongly deported from US to El Salvador has been returned to face criminal charges

    • WTX News Editor
    • June 6, 2025
    • 11:54 pm
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    • Kilmar Abrego Garcia, mistakenly deported by the Trump administration, has returned to the US to face an indictment for conspiring to transport illegal immigrants.

    • Despite a 2019 immigration court order that granted him protection from deportation due to potential gang persecution, he was deported under a controversial wartime law.

    • US authorities, backed by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, facilitated Garcia’s return to the US, where he will now be prosecuted and may face sentencing for alleged involvement in an alien smuggling operation.

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Man wrongly deported from US to El Salvador has been returned to face criminal charges | US News

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    A man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration has been returned to the US to face criminal charges.

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia was charged in an indictment filed in federal court in Tennessee with conspiring to transport illegal immigrants into the US, attorney general Pam Bondi said on Friday.

    Court records have shown the indictment was filed on 21 May, more than two months after he was deported from the US under a controversial 18th-century wartime law.

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    US attorney general Pam Bondi, alongside her deputy Todd Blanche, outlined the charges at a news conference. Pic: AP

    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.

    “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,” he said.

    Salvadoran Abrego Garcia was deported from Maryland despite an immigration judge’s 2019 order granting him protection after finding he was likely to be persecuted by local gangs if he was returned to his native country.

    The indictment alleges Abrego Garcia worked with at least five co-conspirators to bring immigrants to the US illegally and transport them from the border to other destinations in the country.

    On Friday, Ms Bondi outlined the charges at a news conference, saying: “The grand jury found that over the past nine years, Abrego Garcia has played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring.

    “He made over 100 trips, the grand jury found – smuggling people throughout our country… MS-13 [international criminal gang] members, violent gang terrorist organisation members… throughout our country.

    “He will be prosecuted in our country, sentenced in our country if convicted and then returned after completion of his sentence.”

    Ms Bondi said Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele agreed to return Abrego Garcia to the US after American officials presented his government with an arrest warrant.

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    Chris Van Hollen (R) speaks to Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Pic: Press Office Senator Van Hollen/AP

    Democrat senator Chris Van Hollen travelled to El Salvador in April to meet Abrego Garcia, arguing his constitutional rights to due process were being ignored.

    Critics of Donald Trump have pointed to the deportation of Abrego Garcia as an example of the excesses of the Republican president’s aggressive immigration policies.

    US District Judge Paula Xinis has opened a probe into what, if anything, Mr Trump’s administration has done to secure his return, after his lawyers accused officials of stonewalling their requests for information.

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    Jennifer Vasquez Sura (R) filed a legal complaint over the deportation of her husband. Pic: AP

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    Officials responded by alleging that Abrego Garcia was a member of the MS-13 gang – something his lawyers have strongly denied.

    In a separate statement, Pam Bondi also attacked what she called the “Fake News Media” and repeated the – yet unproven – allegations against Abrego Garcia.

    “The Justice Department’s Grand Jury Indictment against Abrego Garcia proves the unhinged Democrat Party was wrong, and their stenographers in the Fake News Media were once again played like fools.

    “Abrego Garcia was never an innocent ‘Maryland Man’- Abrego Garcia is an illegal alien terrorist, gang member, and human trafficker who has spent his entire life abusing innocent people, especially women and the most vulnerable.”

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