Senator Chris Van Holllen (D) Maryland on MSNBC Cable News This Afternoon.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29,  landed back in the US in Tennessee late this afternoon.  He was mistakenly deported to a gulag in El Salvador by the Trump administtion earlier this year.  According to one Trump administrtion official, Garcia was “mistakenly” deported to El Salvador.  He was later fired for this admission..

At the time of  his deportation, there were no charges filed against him.  And, he was not permitted due process.  That has been  the basis of the firestorm surroudning his deportation.  No due process.

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D) Maryland visited him in a hotel in El Salvador earlier this year.  The Senator met with Mr. Garcia in a hotel room back in April.   Now the Trump administration is claiming that there were charges against him, although they  were not heard at the time of his deportation. The charges against him are only two weeks old. Senator Van Hollen said this afternoon on MSNBC cable news that he believes that the overwheming majority of the American public believe that Mr. Garcia should have been permitted his constitutional right to due process – which he was denied.  Trump’s Department of Justice has yielded to the rule of law.

Lee Gelent, lead attorney for the ACLU on immigrant issues,  was interviewed on MSNBC cable news as well this afternoon.  He said he could not comment on the new charges against Mr. Garcia, but that this Supreme Court ordered return demonstrates that Trump and his administration could have had him returned any number of times, despite their denial of that ability and that he would remain in El Salvador.

He has been returned to the US to face charges against him for running a smuggling ring.  He has denied this charge, saying he worked in construction and often had to transport fellow workers.  Mr Garcia is married and has three young children.

Will Mr. Garcia be able to get a fair trial given  the Trump’s  indictment of him prior to his due process?