Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Tennessee police publish traffic stop video

The authorities in Tennessee have published a video of a traffic stop from 2022 in which Kilmar Abrego Garcia is involved, the Maryland construction worker, who, after his faulty deportation to El Salvador, became the face of the US immigration policy.

The body-cama film material, which is posted by various news organizations, shows a quiet and friendly exchange between the officials of the Tennessee Highway Patrol and Abbargo Garcia. He was stopped in a vehicle with eight passengers due to speed overrun and said they had worked in Missouri.

Officers then discussed their suspicion of human trafficking with each other because nine people traveled without luggage. One of the officers said: “He drives these people for money.” Another said he had $ 1,400 in an envelope.

Abrego Garcia was never charged with a crime, while the officials allowed him to continue with a warning about an expired driver's license, according to a report on the report published last month by the US home protection. The report states that he had traveled from Texas to Maryland via Missouri to introduce people to carry out construction work.

The Trump government has published the interactions of Abrego Garcia with the police over the years

A lawyer from Abrego Garcia, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, said in a statement on Friday that he had seen no evidence of a crime in the free film material.

“But the point is not the traffic stop-that Mr. Abrego Garcia earns his day in court. Bring him back to the United States,” said Sandoval-Moshenberg.

As details of the Tennessee traffic stops were published for the first time, Abego Garcia's wife said that he sometimes transported groups of employees between the construction sites.

“Unfortunately, Kilmar is currently locked up without contact with the outside world, which means that he cannot react to the claims,” ​​said Jennifer Vasquez Sura in mid -April.

Abergo Garcia fled to the USA at the age of 16 and lived in Maryland in Maryland for about 14 years, according to court documents. The US immigration and customs authority deported him to a Salvadoran prison in March for a reproach from 2019 that he was in the MS-13 gang.

The police in Maryland had identified Abrego Garcia as a MS-13 gang member based on his tattoos, Chicago Bulls Hoodie and the word of a criminal informant. But he was never charged. His lawyers say that the informant claimed that Abrego Garcia was in an MS-13 chapter in New York, where he never lived.

The expulsion of Abrego Garcias against El Salvador also violated the decision of a US immigration judge in 2019, who protected him from deportation to his home country. The judge had found that Abrego Garcia would probably be persecuted there by local gangs that had terrorized him and his family.

After ABREGO Garcia's family had filed a lawsuit, the US district judge Paula Xinis ordered the Trump government to return Abrego Garcia on April 4. The Supreme Court decided on April 10 that the administration had to work to bring it back.

Xinis then lamed a government lawyer who could not explain what the Trump government did. She ordered the officials to unite statements and other information in order to document their efforts.

The Trump government appealed. However, according to information, a Federal Supreme Court supported the order of Xinis in a blasty judgment. The case continues.

In the meantime, President Donald Trump admitted to ABC News on Tuesday that he could call El Salvador's president and have Abrego Garcia sent back. But Trump doubled his claims that Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang.

Attorney Sandoval-Moshenberg said on Friday that Abego Garcia should be able to answer the allegations himself in front of the US immigration judge, who heard his case in 2019.

“I have represented Kilmar Abrego Garcia for more than a month, and this body cam video is the first time that I heard his voice,” said Sandoval-Moshenberg. “He was denied the most fundamental protection of the proper procedure – no call to his lawyer, no call to his wife or child and no opportunity to be heard.”

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The reporter of Associated Press Travis Loller in Nashville contributed to this report.