{"id":73888,"date":"2026-05-22T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/us-judge-dismisses-criminal-indictment-against-kilmar-abrego-garcia\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:57:06","slug":"us-judge-dismisses-criminal-indictment-against-kilmar-abrego-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/us-judge-dismisses-criminal-indictment-against-kilmar-abrego-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge dismisses criminal indictment against Kilmar \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge said Trump administration would not have prosecuted \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda had he not challenged his high-profile deportation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A US judge dismissed a criminal indictment against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/kilmar-abrego-garcia\">Kilmar \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda<\/a> on Friday, finding that the Trump administration would not have prosecuted him had he not challenged his high-profile deportation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1brego Garc\u00eda, who had entered the United States without authorization in the past, became a symbol of the Trump administration\u2019s drive for mass deportations when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/04\/maryland-deported-el-salvador-kilmar-abrego-garcia\">was sent<\/a> to the notorious anti-terrorism mega-prison in El Salvador known as Cecot last March. This was despite a prior court order barring him from being returned there because of a risk of persecution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/22\/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-dismissed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge said Trump administration would not have prosecuted \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda had he not challenged his high-profile deportation Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A US judge dismissed a criminal indictment against Kilmar \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda on Friday, finding that the Trump administration would not have prosecuted him had he not challenged his high-profile &#8230; <a title=\"US judge dismisses criminal indictment against Kilmar \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/us-judge-dismisses-criminal-indictment-against-kilmar-abrego-garcia\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US judge dismisses criminal indictment against Kilmar \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}