US judge tosses case against wrongly deported Salvadoran man

A US federal judge dismissed a criminal case on Friday filed against a Salvadoran man at the center of a row over President Donald Trump’s crackdown on migrants.US District Judge Waverly Crenshaw ruled that the indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia by the Trump administration’s Justice Department was “an abuse of prosecuting power.”For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident married to an American woman, was among more than 200 people sent to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison in March of last year.The Salvadoran man had been living in the United States under protected legal status since 2019, when a judge ruled, he should not be deported because he could be harmed in his home country.Justice Department lawyers admitted that Abrego Garcia had been wrongly deported due to an “administrative error.”After his return to the United States in June, Abrego Garcia was detained again in the southern state of Tennessee and

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