President Donald Trump's administration is finally announcing the return of wrongly-deported Maryland father Kilmar Ábrego García from an El Salvadoran megaprison back to the United States, where they are charging him with a conspiracy to illegally transport unauthorized immigrants.

It's a major reversal from the administration's monthslong position that, despite multiple court orders to do so, they could not demand his return from the Salvadoran government, at times even overruling DOJ lawyers behind the scenes who were trying to facilitate his return.

The criminal trial is their last-ditch attempt to save face, former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman told CNN. He added that the Trump administration had been adamant that the man would not be coming back to the U.S.

"This guy was running the taxi service over ten years, and on a few occasions he hires Ábrego García, that's the allegation, to drive people from Texas up somewhere into the interior," he said about the indictment of Ábrego García.

"So that is the gist of the charges that he joined this ongoing conspiracy," said Litman. "This is the administration's way of sort of snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, because it was getting more and more pressure ... now they're bringing him back, not to deport him again, but to charge him with a crime that could put him in federal prison for a couple of years."

Other commenters on social media celebrated the move, saying that no matter what happens at trial, it's a victory for due process and for Ábrego García's constitutional rights after the Trump administration did everything it could to deny them.

"HUGE BREAKING: Kilmar Ábrego García is currently headed BACK to the United States where he will face criminal charges, despite trump Admin attempts to keep him in El Salvador," wrote Really American PAC adviser Majid Padellan, better known as Brooklyn Dad Defiant. "MAJOR win for Due Process... BIGLY loss for Trump."

"Hey, would you look at that! It turns out the government *could* facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States," wrote Institute for Justice civil rights litigator Patrick Jaicomo. "As far as I know, it didn’t even take the Navy SEALs and El Salvador is still a sovereign nation."

"The Trump admin blinked," wrote the American Immigration Council's Aaron Reichlin-Melnick. "After months of outright defiance of court orders, and many boasts that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was 'not coming back' — he's coming back. Maybe he will be found guilty of these charges. Maybe not. Either way, he will get DUE PROCESS, because that's the law!"

Meanwhile, on MSNBC, former GOP strategist Tim Miller tore into the Trump administration for trying to favorably spin their actions.

"[Attorney General] Pam Bondi said in that press conference that this is American justice. It's like, no, it's not American justice," he said. "They could deport people through the deportation process, or they could do what they just did today and show to a grand jury, show to a court of law that the men that they disappeared to El Salvador, all 200-some odd of them, committed crimes."

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