Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man at the center of a political maelstrom after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, was in a Tennessee jail today after the United States abruptly brought him back to face new charges of transporting migrants living in the U.S. illegally.

Abrego Garcia made an initial appearance in federal court in Nashville, Tenn., late Friday, and the government asked a judge to keep him in custody without bail. He was detained in the Putnam County jail in Cookeville, Tennessee, about 80 miles east of Nashville, his lawyers said. He is expected to return to federal court for an arraignment Friday.

The sudden move by the Trump administration to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States after months of fighting efforts to do so could end the most high-profile legal b

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