A wrongly deported immigrant at the center of a high-profile legal battle over President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort is back in the United States and facing a criminal indictment in Tennessee, the Justice Department said Friday.

Attorney General Pam Bondi held a news conference to unveil the indictment for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland resident who is originally from El Salvador, on two charges alleging he took part in a conspiracy between 2016 to 2025 to transport undocumented immigrants from Texas to Maryland and other places in the United States.

Abrego Garcia had been held in an El Salvador prison since March, when the Trump administration sent him to Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT. An immigration judge in 2019 ordered that Abrego Garcia not be dep

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