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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Anthony France

El Salvador deportee returned to the US and charged with human smuggling

Kilmar Ábrego García, 29, accused of human smuggling - (AP)

A man whose mistaken deportation to El Salvador became a political flashpoint in Donald Trump’s stepped-up immigration enforcement blitz has been returned to the US to face prosecution on two federal criminal charges.

Kilmar Ábrego García, 29, is accused of a large human smuggling operation that brought immigrants from Texas into other parts of America illegally.

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