US EditionTennessee police release Abrego Garcia traffic stop video
- Tennessee state police released a 2022 video showing Kilmar Abrego Garcia stopped near Cookeville with 11 passengers, and no arrest was made.
- Officials suspect Abrego Garcia of transporting undocumented people for money, but the trooper’s report did not mention human trafficking and the man appeared cordial.
- Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Salvadoran with protective status from a 2019 judge's ruling, was deported to El Salvador in March 2025 without due process or communication.
- His attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg said, "This video doesn't show any signs of a crime," and argued Abrego Garcia lacked opportunity to be heard before deportation.
- Although the Supreme Court ordered his return, the Trump administration refuses to bring Abrego Garcia back, highlighting conflicts over immigration enforcement and legal protections.
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Tennessee State Police release 2022 traffic stop video of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Tennessee Highway Patrol has released video of the 2022 traffic stop of Kilmar, and from the side view of the front of the vehicle, it looks like it was a van that could have carried 8 people as the trooper mentioned. That would include Kilmar and the...
Armstrong Williams: Why is Trump choosing to die on this hill?
President Donald Trump was elected to crack down on illegal immigration. Deportation priority was rightly given to criminals convicted of serious crimes. But support for Mr. Trump’s deportations is dwindling over the strange and surreal case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was summarily and unconstitutionally deported to a dungeon in El Salvador on March 15. Why is President Trump choosing to die on this hill? Abrego Garcia entered the country ille…
The Conversation
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation case is more about individual rights than the Trump administration’s foreign policy
The Trump administration claims that judges’ orders in the cases of immigrants deported to a prison in El Salvador intrude on the president’s right to conduct foreign policy.
Charles O. Miller letter: The more contact, the greater the notice
In my view, Pamela Melander correctly writes that we are to speak up when we learn of governmental injustices — seeing where cruelty and fear become de facto policy. On the West Central Tribune's April 26th Opinion page, she highlights the severe lack of due process in the execution of mass deportations of immigrants, as she outlined the case of Kilmar A. Garcia. Now, I'm learning his case is not unique. There are others like him, suffering …
Tennessee Releases Traffic Stop Video of Abrego Garcia Amid Criminal Allegations - Miamistandard News
Thursday, Tennessee state police released a video of a traffic stop in 2022 involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This is the event that Trump administration officials have used to explain why they removed the Maryland man who was wrongly sent to El Salvador in March. US officials have said that the fact that Abrego Garcia wasn’t arrested during the traffic stop in November 2022 supports their claims that he was a member of MS-13 and involved in traff…
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