Kilmar Abrego Garcia , the Maryland man whose erroneous deportation to El Salvador became a protracted battle over due process and a test of wills, has been returned to the United States to face human smuggling charges in Tennessee.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday in a news conference that he had landed in the U.S. “to face justice.”

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Abrego Garcia has been named in an indictment charging him with transporting within the U.S. people not legally in the country. The two-count indictment, sealed by a Tennessee court last month, alleges that Abrego Garcia participated in a conspiracy over nine years to move people from Texas deeper into the country.

The indictment alleges that those transported included members

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