A defendant filed a motion to dismiss, claiming selective and vindictive prosecution and pointing to a three-year gap between a traffic stop and filed charges as suspicious timing. The defendant is a Salvadoran national living illegally in Maryland with his family who was mistakenly deported in March and sent to CECOT, a maximum security prison known for human rights abuses, where he alleges severe beatings and psychological torture. Multiple administration officials conceded the deportation was an administrative error. In June, he was returned to the U.S. and faced a two-count indictment tied to a November 2022 traffic stop alleging illegal transportation and conspiracy charges and alleged ties to MS-13.
Abrego Garcia, a citizen of El Salvador living illegally in Maryland with his wife and children, was deported in March and sent to the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated CECOT, a notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador that is well-documented to be a cesspool of human rights abuses. Abrego Garcia has alleged he endured severe beatings and psychological torture while imprisoned there.
The case has captured national attention amid President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, getting all the way to the Supreme Court and igniting debates about constitutional rights and due process. In multiple court filings, at least three separate Trump administration officials conceded that Abrego Garcia had been mistakenly deported because of an administrative error. In June, Abrego Garcia was transported back to the U.S. with a two-count criminal indictment waiting for him when he arrived.
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