A man has been returned to the US to face criminal charges after being mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration. Loading audio...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29, has been charged with conspiring to transport illegal immigrants into the US.

Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters on Friday that the indictment was filed in a federal court in Tennessee on May 21 — more than two months after the wanted man was deported from Maryland under a controversial 18th-century wartime law.

Abrego Garcia's lawyer, Andrew Rossman, said it would now be up to the US judicial system to ensure he received due process.

"Today's action proves what we've known all along—that the administration had the ability to bring him back and just refused to do so," he said.

Abrego Garcia, a Salvador

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