Kilmar Abrego Garcia is reportedly heading back to the United States to face criminal charges related to human smuggling, according to ABC News.
Abrego Garcia, a deported Salvadoran national accused of domestic abuse by his wife and suspected of MS-13 gang affiliation, is heading back to the U.S. where he faces criminal charges for allegedly transporting illegal migrants across the country, according to sources that spoke with ABC News. The development marks a major win for Democrats, who heavily advocated for the Salvadoran man to be returned to the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Abrego Garcia in March and deported him back to his home country of El Salvador later that month, originally transferring him to the Terrorism Confinement Center, a maximum-security prison facility in the Central American country built to house gang bangers.
Abrego Garcia’s deportation enraged Democrats, who argued that his deportation shouldn’t have taken place given his previous withholding of removal protection from an immigration judge. Maryland Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen visited the country to advocate for his return, and he was followed by a slate of House Democrats who did the same.
The Trump administration has long stood by his deportation, noting local law enforcement suspicions in Maryland that he is an MS-13 gang member and previous accusations of domestic abuse by his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura.
Abrego Garcia was once pulled over on a Tennessee highway in 2022 and suspected of human smuggling after the Tennessee Highway Patrol discovered he was transporting eight passengers with no apparent luggage. The vehicle Abrego Garcia was driving that night belonged to Jose Ramon Hernandez-Reyes, an illegal migrant who was sentenced to prison for human smuggling in 2020.
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
This is a developing story that will be updated.
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