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Justice Department moving to reopen criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia after judge drops smuggling charges

Nypost · 🇺🇸 public United States · · 651 words · By Associated Press
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Justice Department moving to reopen criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia after judge drops smuggling charges See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Topics 3

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What happened

Justice Department moving to reopen criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia after judge drops smuggling charges See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on Google The Justice Department is pushing to revive criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, telling a federal appeals court late Monday that a judge erred in his scathing ruling that called the case against the man mistakenly…

Common ground

District Judge Waverly Crenshaw that threw out charges of human smuggling against the Salvadoran national.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Pity: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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Loaded Language 80% confidence
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Appeal to Pity 70% confidence
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 13 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw threw out charges of human smuggling against the Salvadoran national”
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Confirmed by a cross-reference (Nbcwashington) and multiple independent web search results stating that U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismissed the human smuggling charges.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man living in the United States, was illegally deported on March 15, 2025, by the U.S. government under the Trump administration, which called it "an adminis…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_G…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — RealPage, Inc. is an American company that produces property management software for algorithmic rent setting. It is headquartered in Texas and owned by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Its servic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealPage
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Waverly David Crenshaw Jr. (born December 17, 1956) is a United States federal judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverly_D._Crenshaw_Jr.
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Claim 2: “regular communications between McGuire and Associate Deputy Attorney General Aakash Singh”
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The web search results provided for this claim are irrelevant technical results about Java and UTF-8 encoding; no evidence regarding communications between McGuire and Aakash Singh was found.
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web search NEUTRAL — Dec 9, 2019 · I want to convert percent-encoding URLs in all languages but vb6 only supports English. I have tested the following code. but it can only convert English characters: Private Sub Form_Loa…
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59250653/how-to-decode-a…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 20, 2020 · Ensure that you have not created another folder called android_asset. Since you've not shown your assets directory, let the www folder be inside the assets folder (app > src > main >ass…
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62486925/the-webpage-at-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Dec 9, 2019 · It's a URL-encoded version of a URL containing URL-encoded UTF-8.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59249928/how-to-get-the-…
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Claim 3: “He is fighting deportation to Liberia in a separate federal court case in Maryland”
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Claim 4: “Abrego Garcia, 31, is a Salvadoran citizen with an American wife and child who has lived in Maryland for years although he immigrated to the U.S. illegally as a teenager”
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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm the personal details of Abrego Garcia (age, family, residency).
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Claim 5: “the judge did find there was enough evidence of “presumptive vindictiveness.””
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Multiple web search results explicitly quote the judge finding evidence of 'presumptive vindictiveness' regarding the timing of the indictment.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events of the year 2026 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred. July 4, 2026 was the 250th anniversary of the signing of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_the_United_States
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man living in the United States, was illegally deported on March 15, 2025, by the U.S. government under the Trump administration, which called it "an adminis…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_G…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a timeline of the second presidency of Donald Trump during the second quarter of 2026, from April 1, 2026, to June 30, 2026. To navigate between quarters, see timeline of the Donald T…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_second_Trump_p…
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Claim 6: “the person who actually brought the charges was then-Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee Rob McGuire”
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Confirmed by a cross-reference (Nbcwashington) and multiple web search results identifying Rob McGuire as the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee who brought the charges.
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web search NEUTRAL — First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee Rob McGuire had resisted requests to provide documents and testimony to Abrego Garcia from senior Justice Department officials includ…
https://www.inquirer.com/news/nation-world/kilmar-abrego-gar…
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web search NEUTRAL — But even if Blanche's statements reflected an animus against Abrego Garcia, they are irrelevant because the person who actually brought the charges was then-Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle Distric…
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/justice-department-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Rob McGuire, who was the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee until late December, argued that those statements were irrelevant because he alone made the decision to prosecute, an…
https://www.thebanner.com/politics-power/national-politics/k…
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Claim 7: “Crenshaw found that Abrego Garcia would never have faced criminal charges had he not successfully sued the government over his 2025 deportation”
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Web search results confirm that Judge Crenshaw linked the prosecution directly to the habeas corpus petition filed after the deportation, describing it as an abuse of power.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events of the year 2026 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred. July 4, 2026 was the 250th anniversary of the signing of …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man living in the United States, was illegally deported on March 15, 2025, by the U.S. government under the Trump administration, which called it "an adminis…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_G…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a timeline of the second presidency of Donald Trump during the second quarter of 2026, from April 1, 2026, to June 30, 2026. To navigate between quarters, see timeline of the Donald T…
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Claim 8: “Costa Rica... has said they will accept him”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 9: “statements by U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, who was a deputy at the time, suggested the Justice Department was targeting Abrego Garcia because he won his wrongful-deportation case”
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Web search results mention that statements by Todd Blanche (then a deputy) were used as evidence of animus/targeting, though the DOJ argued they were irrelevant to the actual charging decision.
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web search NEUTRAL — Documents suggest DOJ sought Abrego Garcia prosecution after mistaken deportation, judge's order says. Kilmar Abrego Garcia has pleaded not guilty in federal court in Tennessee to charges of human smu…
https://symby.com/news?_cid=52377359
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web search NEUTRAL — Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin may have derailed his own agency’s months-long attempts to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia — whose case has been a lightning rod in the Trump administration’s …
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/markwayne-mullin-blows-ice-plan-22…
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web search NEUTRAL — Kilmar Abrego Garcia arrives with his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura and his attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg (L) at U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on Dec. 22, 2025, in Greenbelt, Mary…
https://www.myclallamcounty.com/2026/08/18/doj-asks-appeals-…
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Claim 10: “A 2019 order by an immigration judge prohibited his deportation to El Salvador, finding he had a “well founded fear” of a gang that had targeted his family there”
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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm the 2019 immigration judge order or the specific fear of gangs.
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Claim 11: “The Justice Department is pushing to revive criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that the Justice Department is appealing to revive criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man living in the United States, was illegally deported on March 15, 2025, by the U.S. government under the Trump administration, which called it "an adminis…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_G…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated CECOT) is a maximum security prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built in late 2022 amid a la…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Confinement_Center
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been at war with Iran and its regional allies. Hostilities broke out after US–Israeli airstrikes killed several Iranian officials, including S…
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Claim 12: “Homeland Security had been aware of the 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee that was the basis for the human smuggling charges for more than two years before Abrego Garcia was deported”
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Confirmed by a cross-reference (Nbcwashington) and web search results stating Homeland Security was aware of the 2022 traffic stop for more than two years before the deportation.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man living in the United States, was illegally deported on March 15, 2025, by the U.S. government under the Trump administration, which called it "an adminis…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_G…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated CECOT) is a maximum security prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built in late 2022 amid a la…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Confinement_Center
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Two shutdowns of the U.S. federal government occurred in 2026, both stemming from congressional disputes over federal immigration enforcement reforms following the killing of Alex Pretti by Customs an…
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Claim 13: “the Trump administration has vowed to deport him to a third county, threatening to send him to Uganda, Eswatini, Ghana and, most recently, Liberia”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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