News about Kilmar Abrego Garcia • charges

Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to U.S. Washington — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant who the Trump administration admitted was mistakenly deported back to his home country, has been returned to the U.S. to face two federal criminal counts that were detailed in an indictment unsealed on Friday.

2019 detention and bond hearings. In March 2019, Abrego Garcia and three other men were stopped for loitering in Hyattsville, Maryland, in the parking lot of a Home Depot store where, his lawyers say, they were seeking work as day laborers.

After Abrego Garcia's lawyers challenged the basis for his deportation, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return, with liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor saying the government had cited no basis for what she called his "warrantless arrest."