Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be arraigned on human trafficking charges in Tennessee

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was wrongly deported and then returned to the United States to face federal prosecution, will appear in a Nashville courtroom Friday for his arraignment after he was charged with participating in a yearslong conspiracy to traffic undocumented migrants into the country.

Abrego Garcia faces one count of conspiracy to transport aliens and one count of unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens after a grand jury in Tennessee returned a sealed indictment against him in May. 

Those charges were made public last week when Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Abrego Garcia had been returned to the United States to face those charges. If he is convicted, Bondi said he would serve his sentence at a federal prison and be removed to El Salvador after his sentence is completed.