A man wrongly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration has been brought back to the US to face federal charges for human trafficking, Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Friday.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported in March due to an “administrative error,” according to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official.

He was one of hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members sent to El Salvador's mega-prison, where he was held for weeks before being moved to another jail.

For months, the US president’s administration has been locked in a tense standoff with federal courts over orders to return Abrego Garcia from El Salvador - a dispute one judge warned could trigger a “incipient crisis” between the two.

Abrego Garcia has now been charged in Tennessee with conspiracy t

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