President Donald Trump has expressed his confidence that the federal government will win its case against Kilmar Abrego García, the Salvadoran immigrant who has returned to the United States for criminal prosecution after being deported by mistake and sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.

“It should be a very easy case,” Trump told NBC News on Saturday.

The president also said that it was not his decision to bring back to Abrego García, who lived in Maryland with his wife and children US citizens before his arrest in March.

But, Trump said, the “Department of Justice decided to do it that way, and that’s fine.”

Donald Trump has a document with notes about Kilmar Abrego García while talking with journalists at the White House on April 18.
Donald Trump has a document with notes about Kilmar Abrego García while talking with journalists at the White House on April 18.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday that Abrego García had “landed” in the United States, months after they sent him to the notorious CECOT installation in what the Trump administration called an “administrative error.”

The Department of Justice brought Abrego García to the United States only to process it for positions related to the alleged participation in a human smuggling operation that transported people illegally.

The accusation of Kilmar Abrego García.
The accusation of Kilmar Abrego García.

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His lawyers said the charges were “unfounded” and that “in any way” a jury would be convinced of his guilt, according to News.

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Despite the admission that deporting Abrego García was a mistake, the Trump administration defended the action, repeatedly characterizing Abrego García as a member of the MS-13 gang, something that his lawyers and his wife have denied.