Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation to El Salvador became a flashpoint in President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, is back in the U.S. and being held in jail as he awaits trial on federal human smuggling charges. His attorneys want him to be released from jail in Tennessee while he awaits his trial.

Abrego was indicted by a Tennessee grand jury June 6 on two criminal human smuggling charges. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges. The indictment occurred while Abrego was housed in a Salvadoran prison, where U.S. immigration officials dispatched him after a routine traffic stop.

Abrego Garcia has remained in custody since being returned to the United States from El Salvador to face federal human smuggling charges stemming from a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee. Abrego Garcia faces two counts of unlawful transportation of illegal aliens for financial gain and a third count for conspiracy.