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‘The prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Tennessee was not vindictive and the evidence before the district court established that it was not.’
The Obama-appointed federal judge overseeing human smuggling charges against illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia “gravely” mishandled the case, according to a new Justice Department filing.The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee made the key claim in its opening brief before the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. It asked the appellate court to overturn District Judge Waverly Crenshaw’s dismissal of a criminal indictment against Abrego Garcia — a credibly accused MS-13 gang member and wife-beater — for alleged human smuggling. The Obama-appointed Crenshaw claimed that the agency’s prosecution of the infamous “Maryland man” was vindictive.
“The prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Tennessee was not vindictive and the evidence before the district court established that it was not. Instead, the evidence showed that charges were brought against Abrego Garcia because the evidence conclusively established that he had committed the serious crime of human smuggling. That’s not vindictive. That’s protecting the public and the order never considered the strength of the case,” U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee Braden Boucek said in a statement responding to the filing.
According to DOJ, Abrego Garcia was pulled over by Tennessee police in 2022 and subsequently reported to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “based on evidence that he was engaged in human smuggling.” The agency noted how the Salvadoran national’s “stated route of travel made no sense, and the vehicle was full of passengers who, despite being on a long-distance road trip, had no luggage.”
While DHS’s inquiry into Abrego Garcia was closed in 2025 following his deportation to El Salvador, the agency reopened the investigation after a Maryland-based federal judge ordered his return to the United States. Meanwhile, then-Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee Robert McGuire “separately began investigating the 2022 traffic stop” and ultimately “obtained a grand-jury indictment of Abrego for human smuggling for financial gain” following further investigation.
As described by DOJ, Crenshaw dismissed the case against Abrego Garcia “on the theory that the government brought this prosecution … in retaliation for his civil suit challenging” his deportation to El Salvador. The agency noted how the Obama appointee “acknowledged that the evidence was insufficient to establish actual prosecutorial vindictiveness” but nonetheless “applied a presumption of vindictiveness to the initial indictment, a measure no court has taken before, which required findings that the prosecutor had a ‘personal stake’ in Abrego’s removal suit … and acted ‘unreasonabl[y]’ in bringing charges.” --->READ MORE HERE
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The ‘Maryland father’ narrative is collapsing once again with new details revealed by the Department of Justice about Abrego Garcia.
A “Maryland father.” That’s how the propaganda press described Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien from El Salvador that the Trump administration sought to deport. Despite accusations of MS-13 ties, human smuggling, and domestic abuse, Democrats and their allies in the corporate press turned Abrego Garcia into a national martyr.But the innocent “Maryland father” narrative is collapsing once again with new details revealed by the Department of Justice about Abrego Garcia.
Garcia was previously deported to El Salvador in March of 2025. Courts later ordered the administration to return Abrego Garcia to the United States after claiming the Trump administration was not allowed to send him back to his native country. Upon his return, he was later indicted for human smuggling “by career prosecutors based on the evidence, the law, and their firm belief that there is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Abrego Garcia had committed the offenses charged,” the DOJ said in a statement. A federal judge then dismissed that indictment in May, alleging the prosecution was vindictive.
But that ruling didn’t determine the allegations of human smuggling were false. And now, the DOJ filed an appeal Monday asking the U.S Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to reverse a district court’s ruling and reinstate the case against Abrego Garcia. And despite the propaganda press’ characterization of Abrego Garcia as just an innocent father swept up by a vindictive administration, the DOJ’s brief lays out new evidence supporting human-smuggling allegations.
The case revolves around a November 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee in which Abrego Garcia, according to the brief, was driving a car owned by convicted human smuggler Jose Hernandez Reyes.
“In 2022, Tennessee police stopped a vehicle driven by defendant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien and national of El Salvador, and reported him to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) based on evidence that he was engaged in human smuggling. Among other things, Abrego’s stated route of travel made no sense, and the vehicle was full of passengers who, despite being on a long-distance road trip, had no luggage,” the DOJ said in its statement.
During the sttop, Abrego Garcia called Reyes and allegedly told the responding trooper he was calling “his boss” and that the car was registered to Hernandez Reyes. Reyes later told investigators that Abrego Garcia worked as a driver in his smuggling operation and had Abrego Garcia saved in his phone as “chauffeur.” According to the brief, Abrego Garcia also claimed he was driving from St. Louis to Baltimore, but license plate data shows he had come from Texas and the nine passengers he was transporting allegedly had no luggage despite making a long distance trip.
According to the brief, one unidentified witness who was thought to be credible detailed “her texting relationship with Abrego and his numerous invitations for her to join him on his ‘trips’ even though she was a minor.”
Yet the propaganda press’ reporting on the DOJ’s new appeal has basically hidden all the new and damming information about Abrego Garcia from their readers.
The Guardian all but ignored the new DOJ appeal and all the evidence it lays out, instead reporting Monday that the case was previously dismissed because an inferior court judge decided the DOJ acted with “presumptive vindictiveness.” The article then includes a bunch of quotes from Abrego Garcia’s lawyers, along with an immigration advocacy group, accusing the Trump administration of weaponization.
Forbes’ Siladitya Ray failed to include a single piece of evidence offered by the DOJ in her write up headlined “DOJ Asks Court To Reinstate Charges Against Mistakenly Deported Man Kilmar Abrego Garcia.” --->READ MORE HERE
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