Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleaded not guilty to human smuggling charges during an arraignment in federal court in Tennessee on Friday.

The pretrial hearing began with Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 member charged with the trafficking of undocumented migrants and conspiring with others to do so, pleading not guilty.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleaded not guilty to human smuggling charges, and the judge in case said she would wait to issue a ruling on whether he should be released from custody pending trial.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to a prison in El Salvador© Jennifer Vasquez Protesters outside of the Nashville courthouse on Friday© Getty Images ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleaded not guilty to human smuggling charges, and the judge said she would wait to issue a decision on whether he should be released pending trial.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleaded not guilty to human smuggling charges in a federal court in Tennessee.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the immigrant at the heart of dispute over Trump's mass deportations, pleaded not guilty to human smuggling.

Abrego Garcia spent several months in Salvadoran prisons before the federal government brought him back to the U.S. to face charges that he was a key player in an international human-smuggling ...

Mistakenly deported man Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleaded not guilty to human smuggling charges in a Nashville courtroom on Friday after being returned to the U.S. from a Salvadoran prison to face trial… ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported by Trump officials, pleads not guilty to smuggling charges as legal fight over his return to U.S. intensifies.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported in error and returned to the U.S. last week, appeared in court to face human trafficking charges in Nashville.