Federal judge dismisses human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. said prosecutors brought the case only after Kilmar Abrego Garcia won his wrongful-deportation challenge, citing evidence of retaliation.
- On Friday, U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. dismissed the federal human-smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ruling the Trump Justice Department engaged in selective or vindictive prosecution.
- Crenshaw found that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche initiated the investigation to justify the executive branch's removal decision, stating, "Blanche started the investigation to implicate Abrego. He did so to justify the Executive Branch."
- A Department of Homeland Security agent testified the probe began only after the Supreme Court ordered the administration to return Abrego Garcia from El Salvador in April 2025, despite the 2022 traffic stop resulting in only a warning.
- The defendant's deportation to El Salvador last year violated a 2019 immigration court order granting him protection, and Crenshaw noted the prosecution would not have occurred without the lawsuit challenging his removal.
- Despite the dismissal, Trump administration officials maintain that Abrego Garcia cannot remain in the United States and have vowed to deport him to a third country, most recently identifying Liberia as the destination.
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He was illegally deported - and taken back to the US. Then the state complained against the man. His case is exemplary for people affected by Trump's measures against illegal migration.
In 2025, the U.S. immigration agency, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, illegally pushes off. The case is causing excitement, and the U.S. government must finally bring him back - and sue him for conspiracy to deport him again. Now the man succeeds.
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West Hawaii TodayJudge dismisses criminal case against Abrego Garcia
A federal judge on Friday dismissed the criminal case against the immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ruling that the Trump administration had brought human smuggling charges against him as part of a vindictive effort to punish him for challenging his wrongful deportation to El Salvador last year. The post Judge dismisses criminal case against Abrego Garcia appeared first on Hawaii Tribune-Herald.
A US federal judge has dismissed the human trafficking case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully deported last year. According to the judge, the Department of Justice intended to punish him with the charges for successfully challenging his deportation to El Salvador, the country from which he had fled as a child. The judge granted the defense's request to dismiss the case due to "selective or vindictive prosecution." According to him…
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