A man who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador is returning to the US.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29, is set to make his return to face criminal charges for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants around the US, ABC News reported.
The Trump administration initially accepted it had made a mistake in deporting Abrego Garcia, a father-of-three who arrived in the US more than a decade ago.
A federal grand jury has indicted him over the charges, the outlet reported, alleging he participated in a years-long conspiracy to move migrants from Texas to the interior of the country.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who lived in the U.S. legally with a work permit and was erroneously deported to El Salvador, is seen here in this handout image
Sources told the outlet that amongst those allegedly transported were members of the infamous Salvadoran gang MS-13.
The conspiracy is said to have spanned nearly ten years and involved the transportation of thousands of migrants from Mexico and Central America.
Garcia was deported in March to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison after the administration claimed he was a member of MS-13. Something he and his family have denied.
His deportation saga began when he was pulled over by immigration officers on March 12 and was told his immigration status had changed.
Within days he was on a plane to El Salvador and his family recognized him in CECOT from media images which showed off distinctive tattoos on his arm.
Abrego Garcia was granted ‘withholding of removal’ status in 2019 after a judge determined his claims that he would be persecuted if he returned to El Salvador were legitimate.
This is a breaking news story.
