Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who had been living in Maryland and legally protected from deportation, had been held in a Salvadoran prison since March 15.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, is back in the United States after being indicted in Tennessee on two federal charges involving migrant smuggling, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday.

The alleged MS-13 member was sent to a Salvadoran prison. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native living Maryland, was mistakenly deported in March to a mega-prison in his home country of El ...

Image President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador met with President Trump at the White House and said he would not return Mr. Abrego Garcia.Credit...Eric Lee/The New York Times Here is what to know ...

For a while, the favored moniker for Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the media was “Maryland father.” Abrego Garcia was indeed living in Maryland and was indeed a father, but this wasn’t what was the most distinctive thing about him.

Lawyers argue that the government “thumbed its nose” at both the court and the law, ignoring explicit orders to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return from El Salvador.