Kilmar Abrego García’s lawyers, Maryland’s man who was unfairly deported to a brutal prison in El Salvador, requested on Tuesday that the courts dismissed the criminal case of the Department of Justice against him, accusing the administration of President Donald Trump to try to punish him because he had “the audacity to fight.”

The new motion of Abrego García, presented in a Federal District Court of the United States in Nashville, argues that the human smuggling charges that the Department of Justice presented against him are reprisals for a lawsuit that he presented for his highly publicized deportation and constitutes a “vindictive prosecution.”

“It is obvious why” the charges against him were presented, argues the motion. “And it is not because of the seriousness of his alleged behavior. It is not because he represents a unique threat to this country. Instead, Mr. Abrego was accused because he refused to acquire the government’s violation of his rights of due process.”

The case, the application continued, “the results of the government’s concerted effort to punish him for having the audacity to defend himself, instead of accepting a brutal injustice.”

Jennifer Vásquez Sura (second from the right), the wife of Kilmar Abrego García, joins supporters while joining the United States District Court for Maryland.
Jennifer Vásquez Sura (second from the right), the wife of Kilmar Abrego García, joins supporters while joining the United States District Court for Maryland.

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Despite a court order that prohibits its deportation to El Salvador, Abrego García was arrested in March and sent to Cecot, the notorious prison of El Salvador by terrorists and gang members. The Trump administration refused to comply with an order from the United States Supreme Court that they immediately return it, repeatedly claiming without evidence that he was a member of the MS-13 gang.

At the time of deportation, Abrego García had no criminal record. When the Government finally returned it to the USA. In June, the Department of Justice revealed an accusation of May against it derived from a traffic stop of 2022, accusing it of a conspiracy charge to transport aliens and another illegal transportation charge of undocumented extraterrestrials.

Abrego García declared himself innocent of the charges and also denies any affiliation of MS-13.

The motions that cite the vindictive prosecution “are made shortly and rarely succeed,” admitted Abrego García’s lawyers. “But if there has ever been a case of dismissal for those reasons, this is that case.”

Abrego García is currently in custody in a Tennessee prison. Although a judge ruled last month that he could go free while waiting for the trial, he was granted a 30 -day stay of his release at the request of his lawyers, who cited the threats of the Trump administration to deport him again.

His lawyers presented a separate motion on Tuesday in search of their release at the end of that stay, saying that they are working with a private security company to transport it back to Maryland.

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Neither the Department of Justice nor the National Security Department immediately returned the requests for comments, but the assistant secretary of the DHS, Tricia McLaoughlin, told News themezone of Abrego García: “As we have said since day 1, this member of M13-GANG will not be in US streets again.”