More than two months after the Trump administration admitted it mistakenly deported Abrego Garcia from Maryland to his native El Salvador, a federal grand jury has indicted him for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the United States, ABC News has learned.
A two-count indictment, which was filed under seal in federal court in Tennessee last month, alleges Abrego Garcia, 29, participated in a years-long conspiracy to haul undocumented migrants from Texas to the interior of the country, according to sources briefed on the indictment.
I can only assume this means charges will be forthcoming against Texas Governor Abbott soon for the same charges.
“Ok, so we lied about every single aspect of this case, and repeated those lies continuously for 2 months to keep an innocent man in a foreign torture prison… but we have evidence now that he gave some people a ride in his car! A RIDE in his CAR! Can you believe that?? No, seriously, please believe that. He’s a bad guy, you guys. Honest!*”
Yes the charges are stupid, but they are primarily to make it so that Trump’s fold doesn’t look like a fold. This is a win that he is out from El Salvador and puts further pressure to bring back all the others in a similar situation
My take, too. They can comply with the court order and save face. The charges are not very solid, though. This can play into Trump’s hands in that if he’s acquitted, just silently brushing it under the rug with another outrage (the admin is seriously just an outrage/scandal ponzi scheme). If he’s convicted, then they can parade him around like they were right the entire time.
The decision to pursue the indictment against Abrego Garcia led to the abrupt departure of Ben Schrader, a high-ranking federal prosecutor in Tennessee, sources briefed on Schrader’s decision told ABC News.
That’s at least good to see.
He made over 100 trips, the grand jury found
Bondi misrepresenting just what a grand jury is and what they decide without ABC correcting it is not good to see though.
Hauling Undocumented Migrants is a CRIME? Uh OH! DONT tell Republican Governors that or they’ll be in TROUBLE!
Gonna be really funny when he gets back here and has no MS-13 tattoo on his knuckles.
“But the El Salvadoran prison lasered it off. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Really.”
That’s already been verified. Remember when Sen. Van Hollen was allowed to meet with him? There was a picture from that meeting that showed his hand.
How much is this whole thing costing the tax payer? When they could have easily left the man alone. He was admitted in the first Trump administration my god. Lmao. Clown show
So what I am hearing is they could have brought him back at any time
“mistakenly”
Ah, the proverbial ham sandwich!
What a bunch of petty losers
Sounds like trumped up charges by Bondi
