The lawyers of Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked a federal judge of Tennessee to order the Trump administration to stop making declarations on his case after the secretary of internal security, Kristi Noem, published it publicly a “horrible human being” who should “never be released”.
Abrego, a Maryland resident, was Wrongly deported in March in El Salvador, And his case has become a flash point in the repression of the Trump administration against immigration, arousing concerns concerning a lack of regular procedure. He is now detained in Nashville, Tennessee, on Human smuggling charges.
In a file on Tuesday, Abrego lawyers asked the American district judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, who oversees the human smuggling case, to ensure that the government is in accordance with the rules of the court concerning extrajudicial declarations to ensure that Grego is planned.
On July 18, Noem held a press conference in Nashville announcing recent arrests of “illegal criminal aliens”, where she made comments on the Abrego affair.
“He has a history for life in trafficking in individuals and to take advantage of minors, to solicit pornography of them, naked photos of them, abusing his wife, abusing other illegal, extraterrestrials who were in this country, women who were under his care while he treats them,” said Noem. “He is a horrible human being and a monster, and he should never be released free.”
Abrego’s lawyer, Sean Hecker, wrote in the last file: “These comments – made by a secretary to the office in office (and one of the heads of the highest law application of the country) in this district, a few kilometers from the courthouse where the case of Mr. Abrego is awaiting fair test.”
“Secretary Noem has assailed the character and reputation of Mr. Abrego, including with verbal insults and allegations which are not relevant to the accused offenses in the act of indictment and almost certainly inadmissible at the trial,” he continued.
The lawyer argued that Noem put himself in four to make the remarks of the local press, and that the declarations “are not only very likely to defile the jury; they seem calculated to maximize prejudices to Mr. Abrego”.
On July 21, the defense had asked that the government issued a withdrawal, but the Trump administration did not respond to this request.
The court had already ordered the government and the defense to stop making public statements In the case of Abrego to ensure a fair trial on July 3.
The new file asks judge Crenshaw to clarify the requirements of the local criminal rule 2.01 in Tennessee, which indicates that a lawyer participating in an investigation or a dispute must not make extrajudicial declarations which may prejudge a procedure.
“In the light of the press conference of July 18, Mr. Abrego also requests that this court orders the government to notify all DHS officials involved in the investigation into Mr. Abrego and all those responsible for their supervision chain, the requirement to comply with the rules of this Court concerning extrajudicial declarations,” said the file.
NBC News contacted the Ministry of Justice and the DHS to comment.
Abrego, 29, was expelled to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador in March. The Trump administration later said that he was expelled in a “Administrative error.“His expulsion was in direct violation of the ordinance of a judge in 2019 which was rendered to prevent the expulsion from Abrego to El Salvador, where he was born and said he was in danger of gang violence.
He was Brought back to the United States In June after a high-level back and forth between his lawyers and the federal government. The Trump administration has doubled in Abrego’s painting as a member of a gang – says it denies.
Upon his return to the United States, he was accused of two federal crimes at the American district court of Nashville: conspiracy to illegally transport illegal foreigners for a financial gain and illegal transport of illegal foreigners for financial purposes. Abrego has Pleaded not guilty at these costs.