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 within the U.S., Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Friday.

Abrego Garcia’s return marks a turning point in a case that became a broader symbol of criticisms of President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies. Critics, including many congressional Democrats, pointed to the case as a sign that the administration was disregarding civil liberties in its push to step up deportations.

But the administration insisted that Abrego Garcia was a member of the MS-13 gang, an accusation that his lawyers denied.

On Friday, administration officials portrayed the indictment of Abrego Garcia by

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