The Abrego Garcia Indictment Raises More Questions Than It Answers

The Justice Department worked some atrophied muscles by indicting Kilmar Abrego Garcia last week. This was a welcome development.

For weeks, in its newfangled role as annex to the White House Press Office, the Trump DOJ had peddled uncharged evidence of the illegal alien’s criminal activities, domestic abuse, and membership in Mara Salvatrucha — i.e., MS-13, the violent international gang that the Trump administration has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. The most notable information was that, in 2022, Abrego Garcia had been detained by Tennessee state troopers in what appeared to be a human-smuggling operation — although he had not been placed under arrest, much less charged with a crime.