Attorney General Pam Bondi says Kilmar Abrego Garcia "has landed in the United States" to face human trafficking charges.
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00:00Good afternoon.
00:17We're here today to announce a major update in an important case.
00:22Abrego Garcia has landed in the United States to face justice.
00:26On May 21st, a grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee returned a sealed indictment
00:33charging Abrego Garcia with alien smuggling and conspiracy to commit alien smuggling in
00:40violation of Title 8 U.S.C. 1324.
00:44We want to thank President Bukele for agreeing to return Abrego Garcia to the United States.
00:51Our government presented El Salvador with an arrest warrant, and they agreed to return
00:57him to our country.
00:59We're grateful to President Bukele for agreeing to return him to our country to face these
01:04very serious charges.
01:06This is what American justice looks like.
01:10Upon completion of his sentence, we anticipate he will be returned to his home country of
01:16El Salvador.
01:18The grand jury found that over the past nine years, Abrego Garcia has played a significant
01:25role in an alien smuggling ring.
01:30They found this was his full-time job, not a contractor.
01:35He was a smuggler of humans and children and women.
01:42He made over 100 trips, the grand jury found, smuggling people throughout our country, MS-13
01:51members, violent gang terrorist organization members throughout our country.