Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the wrongly deported Salvadoran immigrant, was brought back to the United States on Friday where he will face criminal charges for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants.
The Maryland sheet metal worker was released from prison in El Salvador and put on a plane back to the U.S. two months after he was deported to his homeland in defiance of an order not to return him there for fear of persecution, ABC News first reported.
Abrego Garcia was recently indicted by a federal grand jury in Tennessee on two felony counts of illegally transporting undocumented immigrants within the U.S.
He’s accused of working for the MS-13 Salvadoran gang by driving thousands of undocumented immigrants from Texas to other parts of the country from 2016 to this year.
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