The Trump Administration finally obeyed the multiple court orders and returned Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland man they wrongly deported to a gulag in El Salvador to be tortured and killed, back to the United States.
Before you begin to think that this is a positive, you underestimate the pettiness and bigotry of the Trump Administration.
Ábrego García, a man with no criminal record, was returned to the United States only to be indicted and charged on what appear to be made-up charges, because the Trump Administration is made up of small people unable to admit their mistakes.
They're charging him with illegally smuggling undocumented people and conspiracy to commit that crime. During their showboat press conference, AG Pam Bondi also accused him of smuggling guns and drugs (racist attacks because he's not European White), but with all her allegations of a massive crime ring, the smuggling charges are the only ones they are prosecuting.
This whole attack is a smear campaign.
It should be noted that Trump got this Federal Grand Jury indictment in Tennessee, NOT Maryland, where Ábrego García lives, or in Washington, DC, where the Federal Government is located. Federal District Courts, where Federal Grand Juries are summoned, are located everywhere, so this was CLEARLY jury shopping, heading to the most conservative state east of the Mississippi, close to DC, to prosecute this case.
They jury shopped because, without a bunch of racists, they wouldn't have gotten the indictment. They clearly didn't want to bring him back from Trump's gulag without a prosecution in place. Trump, Bondi, and MAGA are terrified of being proven wrong about immigrants. White Supremacy is what appeals most of all to their base.
Most legal experts are expecting a full exoneration of the charges.
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