The United States brought the Kilmar Ábrego García, wrongly to El Salvador, in charge of face to face
Kilmar ábrego García, a 29-year-old man from El Salvador, wrongly expelled in March, was returned to the United States to face two federal criminal accusations.
He was accused of having participated in a traffic consumption over several years to move without papers from Texas to other parts of the country.
El Salvador agreed to release Mr. ábrego García after the United States presented him with an arrest warrant, US prosecutor Pam Bondi said on Friday. His lawyer described the accusations of “absurd”.
The White House had resisted an order from the Supreme Court of the United States from April to “facilitate” its return after being sent to a prison in Salvador alongside more than 250 other deportees.
In an indictment of the Grand Jury to two chiefs, filed with a Tennessee court last month and not sealed on Friday, Mr. ábrego García was accused of a conspiracy chief to transport foreigners and a second illegal transporter of undocumented foreigners.
Bondi said that the Grand Jury found that Mr. Ábrego García had played an “important role” in an extraterrestrial smuggling ring, bringing thousands of illegal immigrants to the United States.
The accusations, which date back to 2016, allege to have transported undocumented people between Texas and Maryland and other states more than 100 times.
The accusation act also alleged that it has transported members of MS-13, has appointed a foreign terrorist organization by the United States.
The Trump administration had previously allegedly alleged that Mr. ábrego García was a member of the transnational Salvadoral gang, which he denied.
Bondi also accused Mr. Ábrego García of arms trafficking and narcotics in the United States for the gang, although he has not been accused of related offenses.
He appeared before the court for a first hearing Friday in Nashville, Tennessee. An indictment hearing is scheduled for June 13, where the American judge Barbara Holmes will determine if there are reasons to keep him detained before his trial.
For the moment, Mr. ábrego García remains in federal detention.
The lawyers of Mr. ábrego García precede that he had never been found guilty of a criminal offense, including gang membership, the United States or Salvador.
Simon Sandoval Moshenberg, one of his lawyers, described the events as “abuse of power” during a press conference on Friday.
“The government disappeared Kilmar at a foreign prison in violation of a court order,” said Mr. Moshenberg. “Now, after months late and secret, they bring it back, not to correct their error but to continue it.”
He added: “It is an abuse of power, no justice. The government should give it a complete and fair trial before the same immigration judge who heard the case in 2019.”
US President Donald Trump described Mr. ábrego García as “bad” while addressing journalists on Friday, and said the United States Ministry of Justice had made the right decision to make him tried.
Mr. ábrego García entered the United States illegally in adolescence of El Salvador. In 2019, he was arrested with three other men from Maryland and owned by the federal immigration authorities.
But an immigration judge granted him protection against expulsion on the grounds that he could be at risk of persecution against local gangs in his country of origin.
On March 15, it was expelled in the midst of a repression of immigration by the Trump administration, after having invoked the law on extraterrestrial enemies, a law in wartime which allowed presidents to hold or export the natives and the citizens of an enemy country.
Mr. ábrego García was taken to the Mega-Prison Cecot in Salvador, known for his brutal conditions.
While government lawyers initially declared that he had been taken following an “administrative error”, the Trump administration refused to order his return.
Whether or not the government had to “facilitate” its return to its home in the American state of Maryland has become the subject of a legal and political battle of several weeks.
After Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen demanded to see Mr. Ábrego García in Salvador, he was released in another prison in this country.
Van Hollen reiterated on Friday that “it is not a question of man, it is his constitutional rights – and the rights of all”.
“The administration will now have to assert its cause before the Court of Law, as it should have been all the beginning.”
The president of Salvadoran, Nayib Bukele, a close ally of Trump, wrote on Friday on social networks if the administration “asks the return of a member of a gang to face accusations, of course, we would not refuse”.
Next Friday, during the appearance before the court of Mr. Ábrego García, the United States will ask that he be detained under provisional custody “because it represents a danger to the community and a serious risk of theft”, according to the motion of detention.
