Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoron person who was wrongly deported and then returned to the United States to face federal prosecution, he did not blame for the allegations that he is not guilty of him Allegedly participated According to Associated Press, in a one -year conspiracy to smuggle the unspecified migrants in the country.
Ebrego Garcia faced a count of a conspiracy to transport aliens and returned a seal prosecution against him in May in May. He was presented at the federal courthouse in Nashville on Friday.
Those allegations were made public last week when Attorney General Palm Bondi Announced that Abrego Garcia was returned To prosecute America. If he is convicted, Bondi said that he would serve his sentence in a federal jail and Al Salvador would be removed after his sentence is completed.
The protesters gathered outside the federal courthouse in Nashville, taking the signals that called the Trump administration to end the immigration raid and provide a fixed process. Abrego Garcia’s wife and other family members attended the hearing.
Federal prosecutors have asked a federal judge to detain Abrego Garcia as his court proceedings play out, arguing that he “is a threat to the community” and “a serious flight risk.” The Department of Justice has claimed that Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS -13 gang, one allegation that his lawyer and family refused, and said that there is a “serious risk” that Abrego Garcia will scare the witnesses.
But the lawyers of Abrego Garcia have accused the Trump administration of misusing their power and engaging in “delay and privacy”. Order to be returned For the United States in April, but the Department of Justice refused to do so for months, only to bring it back to sue.
The Federal Judge, who oversee the Ebrego Garcia case, did not rule on his custody after an hour -long hearing on Friday, but said he would issue a written decision “soon.”
One of his lawyers, Simon Sandowal-Sowanberg said last week that he did not believe that Abrego Garcia would be convicted.
“There is no way that a jury is going to see the evidence and agrees that this sheet metal worker is the leader of an international MS -13 smuggling conspiracy,” he said.
Prosecution Last week, Unseled alleged that between 2016 and 2025, Abrego Garcia conspired with others to bring migrants from Latin American countries to the US, passing through Mexico before crossing the border in Texas.
The prosecutors said that he and an anonymous co-prosecutor would pick up migrants in Houston and take them to other places in the US, claiming that Abrego Garcia and the co-prosecutor prepared “cover stories” to provide law enforcement, such as they were transporting people for construction work.
Abrego Garcia and his co-conspirator “deliberately and illegally carry thousands of migrants” who are not legally in the US, accused in the prosecution.
In March, Ebrego Garcia was given to Al Salvador in March after being arrested by federal immigration officials in Maryland, where he has lived since reaching the US in 2011. The man and his wife had sued him for his removal, with the Trump administration an immigration officer admitted that his exile was an administrative error to Lalvador.
In 2019, an immigration judge provided a legal status to Abrego Garcia, which is known to remove. That security refused the Homeland Security Department to remove its original country – Al Salvador – as he was likely to face harassment from gangs.
The Maryland Judge ordered the Trump administration to order Ebrego Garcia for order to order the US in April, and it was the order Large scale confirmed by the Supreme Court. But the administration opposed bringing him back to the US, arguing that the judge lacked the right to do it to do so.
Abrego Garcia was initially held at the Supermax Jail in L Salavador, also known as a secot. But he was shifted to a low-protection facility in April, the State Department said.
Bondi said the Salvadoron government agreed to release Abrego Garcia to face criminal allegations in the US after being presented with a warrant for its release.
Ebrego Garcia lawyers have also shifted the civil case to demand their return, filing a justice department after returning to the US last week, claiming to fulfill the order of the Judge of Maryland, claiming that his return was completed and the case is now moot. The lawyers of the Salvadoran man on Monday asked the Trump administration to deal with his case “pure Persia” in a court.
The lawyers said, “Instead of the withdrawal of Abrego Garcia, for the last two months, the defendants have defied the court orders, deny the fixed process and dislike Abrego Garcia, a detailed, all the government’s efforts,” Wanted the lawyers wrote, the Maryland judge asked the Maryland judge to start the case and reported the restrictions to the government.
In response, the Department of Justice said that it has “done by the plaintiff that the plaintiff asked and the court ordered him to do,” in the convenience of returning to the US, and said it would file a proposal to dismiss the case next week. ”
The lawyers of the Department of Justice wrote, “The evidence is in pudding – the defendants have returned Abrego Garcia to the United States, as ordered to be done. None of the hyperbolic arguments of the plaintiff or does not change any of the proceedings in the matter,” Wakers of the Department of Justice.
editor’s Note: An old version of this article described the allegations against Kilmar Abrego Garcia as “human trafficking” instead of “human trafficking”. Their alleged criminal offenses are for human trafficking, including a person to be voluntarily transferred to a range, while smuggling includes the use of force and a specific purpose.
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