DOJ Official Resigns After Administration Charges Abrego Garcia [View all]
Critics say the administration’s human trafficking charges against Abrego Garcia should be viewed with skepticism.
By Chris Walker , Truthout
PublishedJune 9, 2025
A top official within the Nashville, Tennessee, area’s Department of Justice (DOJ) offices has resigned after the Trump administration charged Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man mistakenly deported from the U.S. earlier this year, with human trafficking ...
After months of claiming they weren’t able to return Abrego Garcia to his family in the U.S. and dubiously alleging that he was a gang member to justify his deportation, the administration finally brought him back to the U.S. over the past weekend. In doing so, however, they also filed federal human trafficking charges against him, which some critics have alleged are based on dubious and circumstantial evidence.
Abrego Garcia’s lawyers noted how easy it was for the administration to get their client back to the U.S. after previously claiming they were unable to do so.
“Today’s action proves what we’ve known all along — that the administration had the ability to bring him back and just refused to do so,” said Andrew Rossman, one of Abrego Garcia’s lawyers ...
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