Abrego
Garcia
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The
DOJ
has
been
using
the
“throw
spaghetti
until
something
sticks”
method
against
Kilmar
Abrego
Garcia
for
ages
now.
With
too
much
egg
on
their
face
to
just
leave
him
alone
after
it
came
to
light
that
he
was
wrongly
deported
to
an
El
Salvadoran
slave
camp
and
forced
back
here
by
SCOTUS,
the
administration
is
desperate
for
anything
it
can
find
to
charge
him
with
something.
They’ve
recently
landed
on
human
smuggling
charges,
but
his
legal
team
is
trying
to
get
the
charges
thrown
out
as
harassment.
NBC
News
has
coverage:
[Abrego
Garcia]
was
eventually
returned
to
the
U.S.
only
to
face
criminal
charges
of
human
smuggling
based
on
a
2022
traffic
stop
in
Tennessee.
He
has
pleaded
not
guilty.Body
camera
footage
from
a
Tennessee
Highway
Patrol
officer
shows
a
calm
exchange
with
Abrego
after
he
was
pulled
over
for
speeding.
There
were
nine
passengers
in
the
car,
and
the
officers
discussed
among
themselves
their
suspicions
of
smuggling.
However,
Abrego
was
eventually
allowed
to
continue
driving
with
only
a
warning.
…
U.S.
District
Judge
Waverly
Crenshaw
previously
found
some
evidence
that
the
prosecution
against
Abrego
“may
be
vindictive.”
The
judge
said
many
statements
by
Trump
administration
officials
“raise
cause
for
concern.”
He
cited
a
statement
by
Deputy
Attorney
General
Todd
Blanche
that
seemed
to
suggest
the
Department
of
Justice
charged
Abrego
because
he
won
his
wrongful-deportation
case.
Rob
McGuire,
First
Assistant
U.S.
Attorney
for
the
Middle
District
of
Tennessee,
admits
that
the
timing
of
the
charge
is
strange,
but
holds
that
he
wasn’t
aware
of
the
police
footage
back
in
2022.
McGuire
pointed
to
the
number
of
people
Garcia
was
driving,
that
they
didn’t
have
bags,
and
the
owner
of
the
car
as
reasons
for
suspicion
—
but
those
aren’t
enough
to
calm
everyone
else’s
suspicions
that
this
has
more
to
do
with
politics
than
justice.
If
this
wasn’t
about
vengeance,
he’d
have
been
in
Costa
Rica
months
ago:
Earlier:
Trump
Administration
Learns
To
Its
Dismay
It
‘Cannot
Alter
Substantive
Rights’
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