A newly unsealed court filing in the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia suggests high-level officials in President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice made the case a “top priority” after he sued the government for mistakenly deporting him to El Salvador.
Abrego Garcia has pleaded not guilty to human smuggling charges that were brought against him after several courts ordered the government to bring him back to the United States from a brutal prison in his home country, a legal battle at the center of the president’s mass deportation efforts.
