Kilmar Abrego Garcia Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant legally protected from deportation, was mistakenly removed from the U.S. by ICE in March 2025.

The first day of a pretrial hearing for alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia recessed after nearly six hours Friday. The judge has yet to rule on keeping him in custody.

Abrego Garcia grew up in El Salvador’s capital city, San Salvador, according to court documents filed in U.S. immigration court in 2019. His father was a former police officer.

Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador in March after he was arrested by federal immigration authorities in Maryland, where he has lived since arriving in the U.S. in 2011.

The government on Sunday appealed a federal judge's order to release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia pending trial on human smuggling charges, another chapter in the saga of the Maryland father who had ...

Suspected MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia was paid up to $1,500 per smuggling trip and may have raked in more than $100,000 annually trafficking humans, including minors, according to witnesses.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, pleaded not guilty on Friday to human smuggling charges in a federal ...

This is an abuse of power, not justice.” Abrego Garcia will be in custody for at least a week, followed by an arraignment and detention hearing, the Associated Press reported.

Donald Trump said he didn’t speak with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, has been returned to the United States to face federal criminal charges, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday.

Three months after being wrongly deported to El Salvador, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was flown back to the United States on Friday to face federal charges.

A federal grand jury in Tennessee last month indicted Kilmar Abrego García on human smuggling charges. The document was unsealed Friday after he was returned from El Salvador. Read the document.