Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in the U.S. to face a federal indictment in Tennessee accusing him of helping to transport across the country hundreds of people who had entered the U.S. illegally.

Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S. marks a surprising turnaround in the mistakenly deported Maryland man’s legal saga after months of litigation seeking to bring him back. Since sending Abrego Garcia to a Salvadoran mega-prison in March, the Trump administration has defied a judge’s orders to return him to the U.S. or communicate their efforts to do so.

The two-count indictment alleges the Beltsville resident conspired with others for nearly a decade to transport people, as well as narcotics and firearms “on occasions,” in more than 100 trips from Texas to Maryland and other states.

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