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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported to El Salvador, is back in the U.S. to face smuggling charges
NPR ^ | June 6, 2025 | XimenaoBustillo

Posted on 06/06/2025 6:03:25 PM PDT by xxqqzz

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man at the center of a bitter, months-long political and legal fight after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, has been returned to the United States to face criminal charges, according to an indictment announced Friday.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced his return and the indictment at a press conference at the Department of Justice.

"This is what American justice looks like," Bondi said.

She thanked Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for agreeing to send Abrego Garcia back

In recorded calls, reports of overcrowding and lack of food at ICE detention centers Bondi told reporters that a federal grand jury indicted Abrego Garcia on May 21 in Tennessee over allegations he conspired to transport thousands of migrants without legal status from Texas across the U.S. between 2016-2025. The two-count indictment accuses Abrego Garcia "of conspiracy to unlawfully transport illegal aliens for financial gain" and "unlawful transportation of illegal aliens for financial gain."

Bondi says Abrego Garcia will face trial in the U.S. on these charges and, if found guilty, will serve time in a U.S. prison before being deported back to El Salvador.

Abrego Garcia's attorney said they're going to keep fighting to get him a fair trial. "Now, after months of delay and secrecy, they're bringing him back, not to correct their error but to prosecute him. This shows that they were playing games with the court all along," Abrego Garcia's lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, told NPR. "Due process means the chance to defend yourself before you're punished, not after. This is an abuse of power, not justice."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; US: Maryland; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; fakenews; immigrants; notimmigrants; saintabrego; searchworks; wronglybeathiswife; wronglyenslavedkids; wronglyenteredtheusa
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"Wrongly deported"
1 posted on 06/06/2025 6:03:25 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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“the Maryland man”


spit


2 posted on 06/06/2025 6:07:14 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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Whoever put out the story that he was “wrongfully” deported really needs to face some sort of justice. That intentional misrepresentation of the deportation has caused so much turmoil.

However, seeing that he is back for trial does give a little sense of schadenfreude for all of the leftists who were screaming for his return and now get to see him facing prison time in the US for his illegal activities.

The story seems to imply that if Garcia is not found guilty, he’ll be deported right back.


3 posted on 06/06/2025 6:09:01 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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I thought he was never coming back.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/kilmar-abrego-garcia-was-never-coming-back-then-he-did/683074/

4 posted on 06/06/2025 6:09:15 PM PDT by del griffith
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Seems the only solution is for God to reboot the planet. But given the continued misery and lack of man’s ability to control the planet, I’m guessing we’re going to suffer more. And it may get way uglier than it is now. Maybe Putin will launch nukes, and man will end up “rebooting” the planet themselves.


5 posted on 06/06/2025 6:10:43 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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Great. Let him stay w van Holland and his family. Be sure to have his daughters and grandkids stay there too. Just so Garcia can molest and rape them before he has to go to court.


6 posted on 06/06/2025 6:11:07 PM PDT by Singermom
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What would you expect from something named “Ximenao Bustillo”?

Does NPR mean “Nicaraguan Peon Radio” in this case?


7 posted on 06/06/2025 6:14:15 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: hanamizu

So says “Bustillo”


8 posted on 06/06/2025 6:14:23 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (What does the Deep State have on Dims and RINOs? Demand release of all tax returns)
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What a waste of taxpayer dollars, and this is just the beginning.


9 posted on 06/06/2025 6:15:16 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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Stephan Miller said some POS at the DOJ threw out the “wrongfully deported” to sabatoge. I hope he/she was fired.


10 posted on 06/06/2025 6:16:33 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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Yes, a Maryland man, a direct descendant of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney.   /sarc

11 posted on 06/06/2025 6:18:13 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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Chris van Hollen’s favorite a$$ wiper is back.


12 posted on 06/06/2025 6:19:22 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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‘ Seems the only solution is for God to reboot the planet. But given the continued misery and lack of man’s ability to control the planet, I’m guessing we’re going to suffer more’

Sounds like this is all god’s fault then.


13 posted on 06/06/2025 6:21:27 PM PDT by Fuzz
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“Smuggling charges?”

Like Lee Harvey Oswald “failing to properly register a firearm?”

14 posted on 06/06/2025 6:21:46 PM PDT by daler
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LOL

yep, fake news media always has to insert their little BS in every article.


15 posted on 06/06/2025 6:24:34 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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No. You don’t want mankind to take the blame?

It’s a Marxian outlook to imply that man has no free will. Opus?


16 posted on 06/06/2025 6:25:44 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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So says the authority of NPR.


17 posted on 06/06/2025 6:25:58 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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He’s just your friendly neighborhood human trafficker. The political ads for the next few years are writing themselves.


18 posted on 06/06/2025 6:26:16 PM PDT by toddausauras (47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 )
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To: Olog-hai

‘ No. You don’t want mankind to take the blame?’

Of course we’re to blame. It’s always been us to blame.

Saying god can correct it but chooses not to is what’s a bunch of bs.


19 posted on 06/06/2025 6:29:23 PM PDT by Fuzz
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Hopefully, the “Maryland Man” Will be tried in my home State of Tennessee,
where he was caught under the suspicion of Human Smuggling.


20 posted on 06/06/2025 6:33:26 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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