Kilmar Abrego Garcia was returned to the United States to face criminal charges involving an alleged undocumented immigrant smuggling ring Friday, months after the Maryland resident was wrongfully deported to a prison in his native El Salvador .

Abrego Garcia has been indicted in federal court for the Middle District of Tennessee on charges related to transporting undocumented migrants within the United States.

A lawyer for the married father of three called the charges "an abuse of power" and accused the Trump administration of "playing games' with a federal judge who months ago ordered him returned to the U.S.

The indictment alleges that Abrego Garcia and others from 2016 through 2025 "conspired to bring undocumented aliens to the United States from countries such as Guatemala, El

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