Kilmar Abrego Garcia appeared in a Tennessee courtroom Friday, hours after he was brought back to the U.S. to face charges of transporting undocumented migrants.

He made his initial court appearance Friday evening in the Middle District of Tennessee, answering “Yes, I understand” in Spanish when U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes asked him if he understood the charges against him.

Judge Homes set a hearing for June 13, where Abrego Garcia will be arraigned on charges and the judge will take up the government’s motion to hold him in pre-trial detention on the grounds that he “poses a danger to the community and a serious risk of flight” He will remain in federal custody in Tennessee pending next week’s hearing.

“If convicted at trial, the defendant faces a maximum punishment of 10 years’ imprisonment for ‘each alien’ he transported,” said the government’s motion for detention, which also contained an allegation – not included in the indictment – that one of Abrego Garcia’s co-conspirators told authorities that Abrego Garcia participated in the murder of a rival gang member’s mother in El Salvador.

  • nieminen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Trump and his cabinet also said it’s impossible to bring him back… Yet here he is… They’re doing this so that they can try to put him through some farse of a trial to shut up those of us outraged at his absolute lack of due process. He was LEGALLY in the US, and was deported illegally.

      • nieminen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 days ago

        If proven in court, beyond a reasonable doubt, sure. See, that’s the due process that we’re all supposed to enjoy. Not being kidnapped and sent to a foreign gulag (which us citizens were paying for btw) without a trial.

        • ChucklestheclownEnglish
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          6 days ago

          I don’t think you’ve ever heard me support CECOT. I didn’t support Gitmo. I am all for a fair trial and for the same the Democrats will have when the evidence comes out.