Abrego Garcia Demands Trump Admin Stop Calling Him An MS-13 Wife Beater

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is requesting the Trump administration stop publicly calling him an MS-13 gangbanger, serial wife beater, human trafficker or monikers associated with the accusations against him.

Since Abrego Garcia was released from pretrial custody earlier in August, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) officials have repeatedly attacked the illegal migrant with “highly prejudicial” and “inflammatory” comments in the media and elsewhere in public, his lawyers claimed in a Thursday court filing. The Salvadoran national — who is fighting human trafficking charges — claims the public attacks could taint a jury pool.

“Further intervention from the Court is necessary to protect Mr. Abrego’s right to a fair trial and the integrity of these proceedings,” Abrego Garcia’s attorneys wrote to Tennessee Judge Waverly Crenshaw. “The government’s ongoing barrage of prejudicial statements severely threaten — and perhaps have already irrevocably impaired — the ability to try this case at all — in any venue.”

“If the government is allowed to continue in this way, it will taint any conceivable jury pool by exposing the entire country to irrelevant, prejudicial, and false claims about Mr. Abrego,” his attorneys continued. “The government’s vitriolic statements also risk impeding the defense’s ability to present its case through witnesses, who may well fear that they could be the next target of the government’s public attacks should they take the stand.”

Abrego Garcia, an illegal migrant from El Salvador, became one of the biggest names in President Donald Trump’s 🛂Immigration crackdown when he was deported to his home country in March