US judge dismisses case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia | Donald Trump News

A judge says the human trafficking investigation was reopened after Salvador filed its case against his deportation.

A judge in the United States has rejected Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s decision after finding that he would not have been prosecuted if he had not pleaded guilty. to be expelled.

On Friday, US District Judge Waverly Crenshaw said the Department of Justice had reopened its human trafficking investigation for the 2022 traffic stop after Salvador Abrego Garcia filed his case.

Crenshaw wrote: “The court does not reach its conclusion lightly.

“The circumstantial evidence here shows that, absent Abrego’s successful lawsuit challenging his removal from El Salvador, the Government would not have brought this case.”

Last year, Abrego Garcia became a symbol of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and was sent to a large prison in El Salvador despite a previous court order that prevented him from being extradited there because of the danger. torture.

While the Trump administration brought Abrego Garcia back to the US in June of the same year, his return came after prosecutors obtained a verdict charging him with human trafficking and conspiracy to smuggle people.

Abrego Garcia did not listen to the claims and said that he was accused of revenge for the government’s extradition to the US from El Salvador.

In the decision to overturn the conviction, Crenshaw wrote that the timing of the charges was more important than the “pure desire for revenge”.

With Homeland Security already aware of the traffic stop two years ago and after closing the case against Abrego Garcia when he was deported, the case was reopened when the US Supreme Court ordered his extradition from El Salvador.

Abrego Garcia’s deportation violated a 2019 immigration court order that granted him immunity from deportation after a judge found him to be a threat to a gang targeting his family.

Although he returned to the US with his family, Trump officials said Abrego Garcia could not stay in the country and promised to deport him again. the third worlda world where the person has no friends.