Abrego Garcia is being returned to be indicted

 

[AG Pam] Bondi told reporters that a federal grand jury indicted Abrego Garcia on May 21 in Tennessee over allegations he conspired to transport thousands of migrants without legal status from Texas across the U.S. between 2016-2025. The two-count indictment accuses Abrego Garcia "of conspiracy to unlawfully transport illegal aliens for financial gain" and "unlawful transportation of illegal aliens for financial gain."

Bondi says Abrego Garcia will face trial in the U.S. on these charges and, if found guilty, will serve time in a U.S.1 prison before being deported back to El Salvador

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The 10-page criminal indictment unsealed today alleges that Abrego Garcia participated in more than 100 trips smuggling individuals, including unaccompanied minors and alleged members of the Salvadoran gang MS-13.

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After the announcement of Abrego Garcia's return, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that the indictment against Abrego Garcia "proves the unhinged Democrat Party was wrong, and their stenographers in the Fake News Media were once again played like fools," adding that the administration would "continue to hold criminals accountable to the fullest extent of the law."

  NPR

Not even close, KKKaroline. Dmocrats never said he was an innocent man. They always asserted his right to due process. Bringing him back to be afforded just that shows the Trump admin for the losers they are, who acted like fools and possibly criminals for denying him due process until now. It remains to be seen whether he can be redeported. This is another loss in the courts for Trump. He's getting quite a long string of them.

UPDATE 06/07/25:

Abrego Garcia’s arrival in the United States represents the Trump administration’s second capitulation on the topic of immigration within days. On Wednesday, the administration returned a gay asylum seeker named O.C.G., who had been living in hiding in Guatemala after being wrongly expelled to the country where he feared persecution.

A federal judge in Boston had ordered O.C.G.’s return from Latin America on the same day that he demanded due process for immigrants summarily expelled to South Sudan, a ruling that the Trump administration has been fighting ever since.

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In a press conference, Attorney General Pamela Bondi claimed that Abrego Garcia was a “smuggler of humans and children and women.” Prosecutors alleged that he “solicited nude photographs and videos of a minor,” but “no charges” have been filed yet on that claim.

  Adam Klasfeld Substack

Gee, I wonder why not.

The government will now carry a burden they previously sidestepped by spiriting him out of the country: proving their allegations beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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Just Security’s co-editor-in-chief Ryan Goodman already found an inconsistency in Abrego Garcia’s indictment. Prosecutors accused Abrego Garcia of lying to an officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas, but a Department of Homeland Security referral report stated that Abrego Garcia made just that disclosure, Goodman noted.