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Kilmar Ábrego García returned from El Salvador to face criminal charges in US (www.theguardian.com)

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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.

“Our government presented El Salvador with an arrest warrant and they agreed to return him to our country,” Bondi said of Ábrego García. She thanked the Salvadorian president, Nayib Bukele, “for agreeing to return him to our country to face these very serious charges”.

“This is what American justice looks like upon completion of his sentence,” Bondi added.

Ábrego García – a 29-year-old Salvadorian whose wife and young child in Maryland are US citizens – appeared in federal court in Nashville on Friday evening.

His arraignment was set for 13 June, when he will enter a plea, according to local media reports. Until then, he will remain in federal custody.

What. The. Actual. Fuck?

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[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Indeed, probably also grand jury shopping

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 0 points 2 days ago

Accent marks go over poorly in Tennessee.