"Whether the Trump administration likes it or not, the right to a fair trial still exists. And even the person the government is now subjecting to what looks a whole lot like a vindictive prosecution is still a beneficiary of this right. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador's infamous CECOT earlier this year along with another hundred-plus deportees the country's dictator agreed to take off the United States' hands in exchange for a few million dollars."
"Garcia kept fighting this deportation, arguing that it had violated his due process rights. The administration kept fighting to keep Garcia silent and locked in a foreign hellhole. The administration lost. A court ordered his return to the US. Nothing got much better once Abrego Garcia returned. The government whipped up an extremely questionable criminal case against him in order to keep him jailed."
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador's CECOT along with over a hundred other deportees after an agreement to transfer them in exchange for millions. Garcia challenged the deportation on due process grounds and a court ordered his return to the United States. Upon return, prosecutors brought a questionable criminal case aimed at keeping him detained and offered him a choice of pleading guilty or being expelled to other countries with poor human-rights records. A judge released Garcia and ordered the government to justify that its actions were not purely vindictive; the trial date was postponed. A gag order barred officials from disparaging Garcia, yet a DHS official reposted a claim labeling him an "MS-13 terrorist."
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