Every day it becomes clearer that whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia is guilty of human smuggling is irrelevant to the Department of Justice, which charged him with the crime. The case the DOJ set in motion has become just another obstacle for the feds to deport the Salvadoran man for the crime of embarrassing the Trump administration.

Whatever your politics, no person of good faith following this case would confuse it with justice.

Abrego Garcia moved to the U.S. illegally in 2011 when he was a teen, reportedly to escape gangs. In 2019, he was apprehended at a Home Depot, where he was seeking day labor. A judge eventually ruled that he couldn’t be deported to his native El Salvador because of credible gang threats against his family.

Trump officials were aware of that order, but they neverth

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