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 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.

There could be no clearer indication that the Trump administration is, indeed, persecuting Abrego Garcia as punishment for his efforts to fight his illegal deportation—a perverse attempt to ...

Washington — A lawyer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the mistakenly deported man who was recently brought back from El Salvador to face charges in the U.S., said his case is bigger than one individual.

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 ...

Mistakenly deported man Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleaded not guilty to human smuggling charges in a Nashville courtroom on Friday after being returned to the U.S. from a Salvadoran prison to face trial… ...

Abrego Garcia has denied being a member of MS-13. His lawyers have said he needs to meet with his Maryland family and lawyers to mount his defense, but that he has not gotten a fair trial in the ...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 13 (Reuters) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the migrant returned to the U.S. last week after being wrongfully deported to his native El Salvador, will remain detained for now ...

Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, told reporters their son Kilmar Jr. was graduating from kindergarten in Maryland as she spoke. "My son is alone on his big day," Vasquez Sura said.

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, the Salvadoran national mistakenly deported from the US three months ago, pleaded not guilty Friday to federal human smuggling charges.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleads not guilty to human smuggling charges in Tennessee federal court By TRAVIS LOLLER and BEN FINLEY The Associated Press, Updated June 13, 2025, 9:21 p.m.