Overview

• Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador on March 15 after the administration admitted an administrative error voiding a 2019 protection order.
• A federal grand jury in Tennessee indicted him in May on charges of transporting thousands of undocumented migrants from Mexico and Central America over nearly ten years.
• The Justice Department secured his return through diplomatic negotiations and a U.S. arrest warrant accepted by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.
• His attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg criticized prosecutors for pursuing charges to avoid acknowledging the prior wrongful deportation.
• If convicted, he faces up to ten years in prison for each count of migrant trafficking.