(The Center Square) – Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned from a Salvadoran maximum security prison to the United States, where he will face criminal charges.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced late Friday afternoon that the suspected MS-13 gang member had been indicted by a grand jury in Tennessee on May 21, charging him with “alien smuggling” and “conspiracy to commit alien smuggling.”
“The grand jury found that over the past nine years Abrego Garcia has played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring. They found this was his full-time job – not a contractor. He was a smuggler of humans and children and women,” Bondi said. “Upon completion of his sentence, we anticipate he will be returned to his home country of El Salvador.”
Bondi added that the gran