Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a citizen of El Salvador, is on his way back to the United States, where he will face criminal charges for allegedly smuggling illegal immigrants.
Abrego Garcia’s return comes more than two months after the Trump administration deported him from Maryland to his home country. In May, a federal grand jury in Tennessee indicted him for two counts of human trafficking.
Officials said he was deported because Abrego Garcia was an alleged member of the MS-13 gang. His lawyers have denied the allegation and said Abrego Garcia had not been charged with or convicted of any crime....