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Kilmar Abrego Garcia will get hearing on if smuggling charges are illegally ‘vindictive'

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Abrego's attorneys have denounced the criminal charges and the deportation efforts, saying they are an attempt to punish him for standing up to the...

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  1. CNN

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia may have been charged because of Trump administration’s vindictiveness, judge finds (opens CNN)

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    A federal judge says he believes the immigrant defendant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the administration wrongly sent to El Salvador, may have been targeted with a criminal charge by the Justice Department this year out of vindictiveness.

  2. NBC New York

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia will get hearing on if smuggling charges are illegally ‘vindictive' (opens NBC New York)

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    Abrego's attorneys have denounced the criminal charges and the deportation efforts, saying they are an attempt to punish him for standing up to the...

  3. WTOP Washington DC

    Abrego Garcia wins request for hearing on whether smuggling charges are illegally ‘vindictive’ (opens WTOP Washington DC)

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    HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge has concluded that the Department of Justice's prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on human smuggling charges may be an…

  4. NBC News

    Judge orders hearing on whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia was the target of a 'vindictive prosecution' (opens NBC News)

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    U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw said there's "some evidence" the prosecution was brought in response to Abrego's successful challenge of his deportation.

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