While Democrats continue to decry Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation, newly obtained police records show that the suspected human smuggler is

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador in March, has been indicted and brought back to the U.S.

The fight over the mistaken deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador now returns to the U.S. court system.

Noem spoke out about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom she said is a "known MS-13 gang member, human trafficker and serial domestic abuser."

The Trump administration for weeks resisted court orders to facilitate the return to the U.S. of Kilmar Abrego García, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador.

Federal Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes in Nashville, Tennessee, determined that Abrego Garcia will be held in custody until at least next Friday.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia became a poster boy for the Trump administration's immigration policies after courts said he was wrongfully removed from the U.S.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was returned to the U.S. from El Salvador after a federal grand jury indicted him on human smuggling charges. His case has been at the center of a legal firestorm over President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

The case is a political flashpoint in the administration’s stepped-up immigration enforcement. Now it returns to the U.S. court system, where Abrego Garcia appeared Friday after being returned from El Salvador.

After a controversial deportation, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was indicted in Middle Tennessee on human trafficking charges. He appeared in court June 6.