Trump administration officials in court to defend prosecution against Kilmar Abrego Garcia as case sits on shaky ground
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Nine months after Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national who was illegally deported by the Trump administration, became a defendant in one of the government’s marquee criminal cases, prosecutors are on the defensive in court as they try to convince a federal judge that the case wasn’t vindictively pursued.
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