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The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

Kilmar Ábrego García returned from El Salvador to face criminal charges in US

a person holds a sign that reads 'kidnapped by ice Kilmar Abrego Garcia'
People protest against the deportation of immigrants to El Salvador in New York on 24 April 2025. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images

Kilmar Ábrego García, the man whom the Donald Trump administration mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador in March, returned to the US on Friday to face criminal charges.

In a press briefing on Friday, the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, said that a federal grand jury in Tennessee had indicted Ábrego García on counts of illegally smuggling undocumented people as well as of conspiracy to commit that crime.

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