President Trump went off on Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a gaggle aboard Air Force One on Friday evening.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an El Salvadoran national who was illegally residing in Maryland. In 2019, an immigration judge ordered Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the dangerous MS-13 gang, removed from the US.
After a months long court battle over his deportation, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was transported back to the United States from El Salvador to face criminal charges.
Abrego Garcia was initially transported to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, however, last month he was transferred to a lower security prison in San Salvador.
A federal grand jury in Tennessee indicted Kilmar Abrego Garcia for “transporting undocumented migrants within the United States.”
He was charged with one count of conspiracy to transport aliens and one count of unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens.
According to the indictment, Kilmar Abrego Garcia and co-conspirators from El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and the US were trafficking illegal aliens from 2016 through 2025.
Read the indictment here.
“If convicted at trial, the defendant faces a maximum punishment of 10 years’ imprisonment for ‘each alien’ he transported,” the government said.
ABC News reported that according to the government’s motion for detention, an Abrego Garcia co-conspirator told the feds that Abrego Garcia was involved in the murder of a rival gang member’s mother.
President Trump went off on Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Friday evening on his way to his Bedminster Golf Club in New Jersey.
“[Abrego Garcia] has a horrible past,” Trump said. “Bring him back. Show everybody how horrible this guy is and frankly we have to do something because the judges are trying to take the place of a president that won in a landslide and that’s not supposed to be the way it is,” Trump said.
A reporter asked President Trump if he spoke to El Salvador President Bukele directly to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia.
President Trump refused to answer whether he spoke to Bukele.
WATCH:
President Trump defended the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, saying, ‘Bring him back. Show everybody how horrible this guy is’ pic.twitter.com/BGSFanlpJf
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 7, 2025
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