Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia have filed a motion to dismiss his criminal case in Tennessee , arguing the indictment against him "was filed as revenge."

The Maryland man's legal counsel acknowledged in the motion that efforts to dismiss indictments on the basis of "vindictive and selective prosecution" are rarely successful, "[b]ut if there has ever been a case for dismissal on those grounds, this is that case."

Abrego Garcia's battle with the Trump administration has become the symbol of the president's controversial deportation efforts. He was deported to El Salvador in March – despite a 2019 court order barring his relocation to his birth country – and he sued the administration to secure his return.

President Donald Trump and some of his Cabinet leaders stonewalled efforts to see

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