Wrongfully deported man expected to contest US prosecutors’ attempt to have him detained pending trial
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Kilmar Ábrego García, the man returned to the US last week after being wrongfully deported to his native El Salvador, pleaded not guilty on Friday to criminal charges of taking part in a conspiracy to smuggle migrants into the United States.
The Maryland man, 29, entered the plea at a hearing before US magistrate judge Barbara Holmes in Nashville, Tennessee.
At the hearing, Ábrego García was also expected to contest an attempt by federal prosecutors to have him detained pending trial.
