Killmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyer, who was accidentally brought back to the US to face allegations of smuggling, asked a federal judge in Nashville on Tuesday that he was rejected. ProsecutionThe Trump administration calling it “anti -repayment and selective prosecution”.
The lawyers claimed that the Trump administration was prosecuting Abrego Garcia only for human trafficking crimes as he challenged Al Salvador to his exile, where he was initially held in the notorious Mega-Jail, known as a secot. His lawyers have said that they had customers Defeated in that jail Before transferred to low-level security facility.
Abrego Garcia illegally entered the US in 2011 at the age of 16 and provided legal protection to his home country Al Salvador in 2019. But he was still arrested by immigration officials and was deported there earlier this year.
While the Trump administration initially admitted in the federal court that Al Salvador had a mistake, since then it has demanded to reduce the case of Abrego Garcia in the court of public opinion, Accusing him of being a member of the gangHighlighting Domestic violence Accusation and charging it with smuggling.
Abrego Garcia has been in pre-protection detention since returning to America in early June. The Department of Justice has alleged in its criminal prosecution that before his exile to Al Salvador, Abrego Garcia transported immigrants including minors who illegally crossed the US-Maxico border as part of a smuggling plot.
One of the main pieces of evidence quoted by the prosecutors is 2022 traffic stops, during which Tennessy’s troops stopped Abrego Garcia as he was driving nine people without any goods in state lines. The lawyers of Abrego Garcia said that it was stating that the federal government did not prosecute him until his exile, which attracted widespread national attention.
“In fact, the only possible explanation for the time of allegations here is that the government has chosen to punish Mr. Abrego to use this prosecution, which was to exercise its right to challenge the violation of the fixed process, which led to his unconstitutional exile, depression and torture in Al Salvador,” Wakyles said in a legal filing.
“This, in collaboration with the statements of the government, is clearly showing the intention of retaliation to carry forward civil measures for his illegal exile against Mr. Abrego, indisputably establishes discriminatory intentions,” the filing continues.
Lawyers of Abrego Garcia stated that the Trump administration went to excessive length to make a criminal case, “using a guilty smuggler in which its” Star Cooper “has been deported five times. He said that the witness was getting treatment from the government in exchange for his cooperation, even though he was allegedly head of a smuggling business and Abrego Garcia “was allegedly a driver allegedly.”
Ebrego Garcia’s lawyers are also asking the federal court in Nashville to order their customer’s pre-trial detention once on that order on Friday, August 22. While the court ordered the pre-testing release of Ebrego Garcia in this summer, his lawyers expressed concern that his customer would be immediately detained by improvement and customers.
If he is released, the lawyers asked the court to give 48 hours to Abrego Garcia to report pre-testing supervision in Maryland. If a release hearing, the lawyers told the court that the US martial service should be ordered to be taken back from the court to Abrigo Garcia for custody, so it is being held, so it can be released from there. The lawyers said that they have hired a private safety group to take Abrego Garcia from Tennessee to Maryland.
In July, a federal judge in Maryland Ordered The Trump administration to return to Maryland to the Trump administration, where he lived with his American citizen wife and child, so he can be maintained with snow there. He immediately blocked the ice from re -locating her in Tennessee and deporting her without notice to some extent, but did not forbid the possibility of the agency re -arresting in Maryland.
CBS News reached the representatives of the Department of Justice to seek comments on Tuesday’s legal filing.
In a statement, Trisia McLaglin, a spokesman of the Homeland Security Department, said Abrego Garcia “would never re -walk on the streets of America, calling them” gang members and human trackers “.
