Mistakenly deported man Abrego Garcia returns to U.S. to face migrant transport charges

A picture posted on X by Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele showing U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a U.S. resident mistakenly deported to his home country of El Salvador, at a hotel in San Salvador in April.

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 case has become a flash point for escalating tensions between the executive branch and the judiciary, which has blocked a number of Trump’s signature policies. The U.S. Supreme Court ordere

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