Democrats have questioned the Trump administration’s claim that Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang and depicted him as a hardworking “Maryland Man.” Attorney General Pam Bondi, after Garcia landed back in the U.S., addressed the development in a press conference, saying he was “a smuggler of humans, and children, and women.”

The Maryland man, whose erroneous deportation to El Salvador became a protracted battle over due process and a test of wills, will face human smuggling charges in Tennessee.