Abrego Garcia Due in US Court on Migrant Smuggling Charges
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Kilmar Armando Abrego García, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March by federal immigration authorities, appeared in federal court Friday to answer charges related to a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee.
Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man arrested by the government and sent to an El Salvador prison in error and then returned to the United States, argue that he should be freed from jail pending trial.
Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia have asked a judge to put severe sanctions on the Trump administration, saying federal officials violated court orders to prove the steps they were taking to attempt to get the wrongfully deported man out of El Salvador for weeks,
Greene, one of President Trump's staunchest supporters, said she's "thrilled" Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in the US and facing charges.