Attorney General Pamela Bondi, June 2, 2025 | Image by Attorney General Pamela Bondi @AGPamBondi/Shutterstock

Attorney General Pamela Bondi delivered a strong message on the need to respect law and order at the border as she announced new charges against El Salvadorian illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia for smuggling humans into America.

Abrego Garcia had previously been touted by the left as a poster boy for unfair immigration rights under Trump’s second term, regardless of his previous gang-ties in El Salvador, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.

“Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been brought to the United States to face justice,” Bondi said during a briefing on Friday, detailing a sealed indictment returned in May by a grand jury in Tennessee.

The indictment charges Abrego Garcia with running a dangerous smuggling operation that spanned nearly 10 years, allegedly transporting not only illegal aliens but also MS-13 gang members, firearms, narcotics, and, most disturbingly, children.

Bondi praised El Salvador’s President Bukele for cooperating with Trump’s orders to extradite Garcia to face his very “serious charges.”

She also spoke on the fact that the Biden administration previously failed to secure the border allowing criminals like Garcia to continue to impact America negatively.

“What has changed is Donald Trump is now President of the United States, and our borders are again secure, and thanks to the bright light that has been shined on Abrego Garcia, this investigation continued with actually amazing police work, and we were able to track this case and stop this international smuggling ring from continuing,” Bondi told reporters.

The indictment outlines a chilling picture: Garcia allegedly made multiple trips smuggling high numbers of illegal aliens – including minors – across the border, treating children as commodities for profit, according to Bondi. Co-conspirators allege that Garcia also engaged in sexual exploitation of minors, human trafficking, and that his ring was connected to the tragic deaths of over 50 migrants in 2021- highlighted by a sad incident accounted for by American officials after a tractor trailer overturned in Mexico.

Bondi also vowed that Garcia will be prosecuted in the U.S., imprisoned if convicted, and deported after serving his sentence. She thanked the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and local authorities for their tireless work to track down the man.

“This is what American justice looks like upon completion of his sentence. We anticipate he will be returned to his home country of El Salvador. The grand jury found that over the past nine years of Rigo Garcia has played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring. They found this was his full time job, not a contractor. He was a smuggler of humans and children and women. He made over 100 trips the grand jury found smuggling people throughout our country,” Bondi added.

The Dallas Express will continue to follow this case against Abrego as Bondi stands firm in her commitment to charge the illegal alien and career criminal.