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"Vindictive": Obama-Appointed Judge Dismisses Tennessee Smuggling Charges Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Authored by Kim Jarrett via The Center Square,
A federal judge dismissed Tennessee charges against a man who, at one time, was at the center of the immigration debate.
Abrego Garcia, who illegally entered the U.S. from El Salvador in 2011, faced federal charges of human smuggling and conspiracy to commit human smuggling.
The charges stemmed from a traffic stop by Tennessee Highway Patrol in December 2022, where Abrego Garcia was found transporting eight passengers across the country.
One of the police officers believed that he was smuggling them, remarking that he was “hauling these people for money,” according to a video obtained by The Center Square through an open records request.
He allegedly did not have a valid driver’s license and was suspected of trafficking the passengers, though he was let go at the FBI’s request.
The car belonged to an illegal immigrant named Jose Ramon Hernandez-Reyes, who was sent to prison in 2020 for human smuggling.
Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw called the charges “vindictive” because Abrego Garcia challenged his deportation to El Salvador.
“The objective evidence here shows that, absent Abrego’s successful lawsuit challenging his removal to El Salvador, the Government would not have brought this prosecution,” Crenshaw wrote in his order.
“The Executive Branch closed its investigation on the November 2022 traffic stop. Only after Abrego succeeded in vindicating his rights did the Executive Branch reopen that investigation.”
The Trump administration deported Abrego Garcia to El Salvador in March 2025, according to previous reporting from The Center Square.
Prior to that, Abrego Garcia was living in Maryland and had been arrested on suspicion of involvement in MS-13 in 2019, after immigrating illegally to the United States as a teenager with his parents around 2011.
Officials prepared to deport Abrego Garcia then, but an immigration judge granted him “withholding of removal,” believing his life would be in danger if he were returned to El Salvador.
The Department of Justice did not immediately return a message from The Center Square about the case.
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Federal officials have issued "Requests for Information" via Treasury Department subpoenas to Turkish-American millionaire and far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker and pro-China CodePink cofounder Susan Medea Benjamin as part of a broader probe into whether the activists violated sanctions laws during a "humanitarian" trip to communist-run Cuba, according to a new Fox News report.
Fox's Asra Q. Nomani, who leads an investigation into dark-money funded NGOs, said the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control is examining whether the activists financed, coordinated, or delivered goods to Cuba in ways that crossed legal boundaries under U.S. sanctions.
🚨 The Treasury Department has subpoenaed Hasan Piker and Medea Benjamin as part of a probe into possible Cuba sanctions violations.
Between Hasan’s “wads of cash” and Medea describing thousands of pounds of goods sent to Cuba, it is not hard to see why Treasury has questions. pic.twitter.com/WRhC5PMDmw
Investigators are also examining whether the two met with Cuban government-linked personnel or entities.
Expanding on Nomani's report, a likely line of inquiry is whether Piker, Benjamin, or members of the broader delegation met with Cuban officials or personnel linked to the Dirección General de Inteligencia, Cuba's intelligence service, or the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples, a regime-aligned organization long used to develop foreign activist networks for overseas statecraft operations.
Nomani's sources said the trip was part of the "Nuestra América Convoy," or "Our America Convoy," involving a global network of communist sympathizers, activists, and influencers who brought supplies to the island.
Well well well…
Marxist Hasan Piker and CodePink Cofounder Susan Medea were subpoenaed about a trip to Cuba.
"Nuestra América Convoy”
Investigated to see if the trip violated US law.
Guess who else was part of the trip?
Isra Hirsi
The Marxist daughter of Ilhan Omar.
Oops! pic.twitter.com/wb3IeHuqu5
Nomani noted, "The investigation is part of a broader effort by officials at Treasury, State and Justice departments to curb malign foreign influence operations inside the United States, particularly activities tied to support for political violence, extremist movements or acts the U.S. government classifies as terrorism."
"The scrutiny reflects growing concern among federal authorities and lawmakers over whether foreign actors and aligned organizations are attempting to shape American political discourse, mobilize activists, sow discord and normalize rhetoric that could encourage violence or undermine U.S. national security interests," she continued.
U.S. law imposes broad restrictions on financial transactions involving Cuba, primarily through the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, which are administered by the Treasury Department's OFAC.
The rules generally prohibit unlicensed travel-related transactions and the export of goods or services to Cuba, with limited exceptions for journalism, humanitarian projects, educational programs, and activities intended to support the Cuban people.
One question is whether the March delegation operated within those carveouts, or whether its financing, logistics, coordination, or delivery of supplies crossed into prohibited support for Cuban government-linked entities.
Why Piker, Benjamin, and far-left members of the delegation felt compelled to champion the failed communist country is addressed in a note we penned in late 2025 titled:
If you really want to understand why the radical left appears to hate America and seeks to implode the nation from within, it is not difficult to see that these ideas are rarely developed organically. More often, they are shaped and reinforced by outside influences. This chart helps explain why the radical left has become so extreme.
As per The Washington Times, "Cuba's intelligence apparatus is training foreign nationals to wage war against the West."
Why?
The Trump team appears to be shifting from an observation mode to an action phase in its campaign against radical-left nonprofit networks, some of which are supported by foreign adversaries and left-wing billionaires.
The target is increasingly clear: NGOs, activist groups, and influencer networks that push anti-American propaganda, inflammatory political rhetoric, revolutionary agitation, and Marxist ideology while masquerading as anti-war advocates or civil-rights organizers.
If Treasury OFAC subpoenas are any leading indicator, the Trump team may be entering the action phase. That should put the nonprofit world on notice.
Tyler Durden Sun, 05/24/2026 - 14:35