The DOJ told the Associated Press that it wants to try alleged MS-13 member and wife beater Kilmar Abrego Garcia on human trafficking charges before America deports him.
From the report:
“This defendant has been charged with horrific crimes, including trafficking children, and will not walk free in our country again,” DOJ spokesperson Chad Gilmartin told The Associated Press.Gilmartin made the statement hours after a federal prosecutor told a federal judge in Maryland that the U.S. government plans to deport Abrego Garcia to a “third country” that isn’t El Salvador. But Justice Department attorney Jonathan Guynn said there was no timeline for the deportation plans.Guynn acknowledged the government’s plans during a hastily planned conference call with Abrego Garcia’s attorneys and U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Greenbelt, Maryland. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers had filed an emergency request for Xinis to order the government to take Abrego Garcia to Maryland when he is released in Tennessee, an arrangement that would prevent his deportation before he stands trial.
Gilmartin made the announcement “hours after a federal prosecutor told a federal judge in Maryland that President Donald Trump’s administration plans to deport Abrego Garcia to a country that’s not his native El Salvador after he’s released from jail in Tennessee.”
Abrego Garcia landed back in America on June 6 to face these charges.
A federal grand jury in Tennessee indicted Garcia on human trafficking charges under 8 U.S. Code § 1324.
The charges were filed on May 21.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, as detailed further below, used his status in MS-13 to further his criminal activity. Over the course of the conspiracy, the co-conspirators knowingly and unlawfully transported thousands of undocumented aliens who had no authorization to be present in the United States, and many of whom were MS-13 members and associates. The co-conspirators also worked with transnational criminal organizations in Mexico to transport undocumented aliens through Mexico and into the United States.
The filing says these people came from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Mexico, and other places. The conspirators allegedly smuggled the people into America through Texas.
Yes, the indictment states the people included MS-13 gang members and associates of the gang.
In April, The Tennessee Star discovered the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) detained Abrego Garcia on suspicion of human trafficking in December 2022.
THP contacted the FBI.
The FBI told the THP to release Abrego Garcia and the passengers, which it did.
Then last month, the DOJ spoke to a prisoner in Alabama about possible connections to Garcia regarding the allegations.
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