Kilmar Abrego Garcia highlights the Trump administration’s criminal vengeance, too

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia highlights the Trump administration’s criminal vengeance, too Abrego already symbolized Trump’s dark deportation agenda. Now he says his criminal case must be dismissed because of the administration’s vengeance.

Aug. 20, 2025, 4:30 PM EDT

By Jordan Rubin

Kilmar Abrego Garcia became the face of the Trump administration’s cruelly incompetent immigration agenda , when the government illegally sent him to El Salvador and resisted remedying its unlawful action — until it finally relented and returned him to the U.S., where it had criminal charges waiting for him .

In a new motion , his lawyers say that those criminal charges must be dismissed on the grounds of selective and vindictive prosecution.

Writing that Abrego “was charged because he r