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.
Funny they slap these charges AFTER he came back. Man it’s almost like this administration is weaponizing the justice department.
“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.
This is kind of interesting.
… If I give a ride as an Uber driver to someone who just walked off with $500 they stole and have no knowledge that they did so, I do not think I can be charged with a crime… However, if I was the getaway driver for someone who just walked off with $500 they stole, and I am in on the plan, I am an accomplice…
I think there is also some precedent for this - as in, it is a practice for people to be facilitating undocumented immigration without ever crossing boundaries and just moving people within the state.
I recollected this from another case:
A deputy noted in his report that he pulled over a black van on April 29 at 5:21 a.m. in the Eagle Pass area. He learned that Avshalom Cohen was the driver. While searching the vehicle, the deputy found eight undocumented migrants, a smoke bomb, a loaded gun, a 9mm 50-round drum, and a police badge.
According to the incident report, Avshalom Cohen told the deputy that he did not know the people he was transporting were undocumented. The deputy searched his phone and found messages “with an unknown subject instructing him to pick up at said location and to drop off in other locations.”
WTH does that have to do with Democrats?
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.
They are not trumped up. The evidence is solid. He was driving the truck of a known trafficker who said he traffics people for me.
Trump and his cabinet also said it’s impossible to bring him back… Yet here he is… They’re doing this so that they can try to put him through some farse of a trial to shut up those of us outraged at his absolute lack of due process. He was LEGALLY in the US, and was deported illegally.
and he will go prison legally for the rest of his life.
If proven in court, beyond a reasonable doubt, sure. See, that’s the due process that we’re all supposed to enjoy. Not being kidnapped and sent to a foreign gulag (which us citizens were paying for btw) without a trial.
I don’t think you’ve ever heard me support CECOT. I didn’t support Gitmo. I am all for a fair trial and for the same the Democrats will have when the evidence comes out.
What event are you veiling behind needless ambiguity there? Evidence for what?
STFU you sniveling bootlicker.
Ah lemmy, where “bootlicker” is evidence. What you could do is provide, well, anything at all to counter the claim.
They have a weird fetish of licking boots. They talk about it all the time. I find it weird and ignore it. The evidence is pretty strong against Kilmer. I didn’t like they sent him to cecot. I think that’s bullshit but we can store him here for the rest of his life once he’s found guilty.
At least it should all come out in court, and thankfully he’s back.
And yes, “bootlicker” is lemmy teenagers thinking they have a sick burn to shut down conversation. I downvote every time I see the word.
I just laugh. It sounds so feeble and edgelord. I am glad he is back and able to stand trial for his crimes.