Kilmar Ábrego García, the man who was sent “by mistake” to El Salvador, has pleaded not guilty to the crime of human trafficking in a new episode of his personal odyssey, one of the most prominent cases resulting from the Trump Administration’s hardened expulsion policy.
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Ábrego García, a resident of Maryland, returned to US soil last week from El Salvador, the country where he had been since March after being deported by the Trump administration.
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After a federal judge requested Ábrego’s return, his deportation was suspended and declared an administrative error after a period of confinement in the maximum-security prison known as the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), created by the country’s president, Nayib Bukele.
Now, you must face charges of conspiracy to transport foreign nationals and for the illegal transportation of undocumented foreigners, which you precisely denied this past Friday before a court in Nashville, Tennessee, where you were arrested in 2022 during a traffic stop while transporting nine undocumented individuals.
The prosecutors argue that he transported undocumented individuals in the United States on more than 100 trips between Texas, Maryland, and other states, and allege connections between Ábrego García and the Mara Salvatrucha criminal gang, which the accused has categorically denied.