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Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to U.S. to face charges from Tennessee traffic stop

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PBS NewsHour

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in the United States. He was wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador in March when the president invoked the wartime Alien Enemies Act. A grand jury in Tennessee indicted him on charges related to a traffic stop in 2022. The indictment alleges Garcia committed conspiracy to transport aliens and unlawfully transported undocumented aliens. Laura Barrón-López reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia is now back in the United States.

0:04.7

Prosecutors had acknowledged that the Maryland resident was wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador in March when the president invoked the wartime Alien Enemies Act.

0:13.7

A grand jury in Tennessee indicted him last month on two charges related to a traffic stop in 2022.

0:20.7

The indictment, unsealed today, alleges that Garcia committed conspiracy to transport aliens

0:26.0

and unlawfully transported undocumented aliens. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Garcia's return this afternoon.

0:34.5

Our government presented El Salvador with an arrest warrant, and they agreed to return him to our country.

0:42.3

We're grateful to President Buckele for agreeing to return him to our country to face these very serious charges.

0:49.3

This is what American justice looks like.

0:52.3

If he is convicted, the Attorney General said

0:55.4

Abrago Garcia would be returned to El Salvador

0:58.2

after completing any prison sentence in the United States.

1:01.7

Laura Berl Lopez is here now with the detail.

1:04.2

So Laura, tell us what else the indictment says

1:06.4

and what happens next for Kilmore, Abraga Garcia.

1:09.0

So for some context, in 2022, when that traffic stop occurred,

1:12.3

Abrego-Garcia was not charged with any crime, was not charged with human trafficking,

1:16.5

even though an officer at the time documented suspecting human trafficking.

1:20.5

Now, the indictment today, unsealed today,

1:22.7

alleges that Abrego-Garcia was transporting, as you said, undocumented immigrants,

1:26.4

but that also includes transporting, as you said, undocumented immigrants, but that also includes transporting,

1:29.2

quote, children on the floorboards of vehicles, according to the indictment. Now he faces charges

1:34.4

in Tennessee. Now, there is the expectation that Garcia's wrongful deportation case before a federal

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