Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national at the center of a legal firestorm over President Donald Trump‘s immigration policies, pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal human smuggling charges.
Abrego Garcia was arraigned Friday in Tennessee federal court, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, and pleaded not guilty to two federal charges accusing him of trafficking illegal migrants across the southern border as part of an alleged multiyear operation during his illegal stint in the United States since 2011.
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