Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are asking a federal choose to situation a gag order towards Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem and Lawyer Common Pam Bondi, to bar them from making “baseless public attacks” towards the Salvadoran nationwide who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador earlier this yr.
Abrego Garcia’s attorneys stated in a Thursday movement filed within the U.S. District Courtroom for the Center District of Tennessee that Trump administration officers have focused their shopper since he was launched from jail, leveling “highly prejudicial, inflammatory and false statements.”
“To safeguard his right to a fair trial, Mr. Abrego respectfully renews his earlier requests that the Court order that all DOJ and DHS officials involved in this case, and all officials in their supervisory chain, including [Bondi and Noem], refrain from making extrajudicial comments that pose a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing this proceeding,” the attorneys stated in a 15-page movement to U.S. District Choose Waverly Crenshaw.
Noem has accused Abrego Garcia, who entered the U.S. illegally, of being related to the Salvadorian gang MS-13. His attorneys have denied the accusation.
“He doesn’t belong here. He won’t be staying here. America is a safer nation without this MS-13 Gangbanger in it,” The Division of Homeland Safety stated of Abrego Garcia in a submit on social media Monday.
Abrego Garcia was arrested earlier this week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Baltimore, days after he was launched from custody in a felony case in Tennessee.
After being deported to a infamous megaprison in El Salvador in March, he was introduced again to the U.S. to face human smuggling prices following a site visitors cease in 2022.
Following detention by ICE, Abrego Garcia’s attorneys had been knowledgeable that the Salvadorian nationwide might be deported to Uganda. U.S. District Choose Paula Xinis stated Monday the administration is “absolutely forbidden” from eradicating him till a listening to may be held to weigh if the Trump administration will let him problem the removing to a third-world nation.
“If Kilmar Abrego Garcia did not want to be mentioned by the Secretary of Homeland Security, then he should have not entered our country illegally and committed heinous crimes,” a DHS official advised The Hill on Friday morning.
“Once again, the media is falling all over themselves to defend this criminal illegal MS-13 gang member who is an alleged human trafficker, domestic abuser, and child predator,” the DHS official continued. “The media’s sympathetic narrative about this criminal illegal alien has completely fallen apart, yet they continue to peddle his sob story.”
They added, “We hear far an excessive amount of about gang members and criminals’ false sob tales and never sufficient about their victims.”
The Justice Division declined to remark.
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