Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father who the Trump administration sent to an infamous mega-prison in El Salvador despite a judge’s order barring his deportation to that country, is headed back to the United States, ABC News and CNN reported Friday.
Abrego Garcia, who is from El Salvador, will face a two-count indictment accusing him of transporting unauthorized migrants within the United States. ABC News first reported the indictment, citing unnamed sources familiar with the situation.
Neither the White House nor the Department of Homeland Security immediately responded to HuffPost’s requests to confirm the report.
Abrego Garcia is one of the hundreds of migrants in the U.S. disappeared by the government to El Salvador’s infamous mega-prison, el Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT.
In October 2019, an immigration judge granted Abrego Garcia a status known as “withholding from removal,” which protected him from being deported to El Salvador because of the risk that he would face violence or torture in his home country.
