He made his initial court appearance Friday evening in the Middle District of Tennessee, answering “Yes, I understand” in Spanish when U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes asked him if he understood the charges against him.
Judge Homes set a hearing for June 13, where Abrego Garcia will be arraigned on charges and the judge will take up the government’s motion to hold him in pre-trial detention on the grounds that he “poses a danger to the community and a serious risk of flight” He will remain in federal custody in Tennessee pending next week’s hearing.
“If convicted at trial, the defendant faces a maximum punishment of 10 years’ imprisonment for ‘each alien’ he transported,” said the government’s motion for detention, which also contained an allegation – not included in the indictment – that one of Abrego Garcia’s co-conspirators told authorities that Abrego Garcia participated in the murder of a rival gang member’s mother in El Salvador.
Yeah he is going to prison for a very long time.
Bullshit. These are trumped up charges. Literally. They have nothing so they’ve made up some bullshit that anyone with half a brain can tell is just that. It was so bad the chief prosecutor just resigned over it.
“he was brought back to the United States to face criminal charges for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S.”
So he is charged with “transporting” migrants within the US? Buses and Ubers also transport people. There’s a big difference between transporting someone against their will and transporting someone who wants to go somewhere.