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Prosecutor defends human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia
The lead prosecutor in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s human smuggling case acknowledged Thursday that he thought it was possible the charges would be viewed as vindictive, but he decided charging him was “the right thing to do.” Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man who was mistakenly deported to a supermax prison in his home country last year,