Kilmar Abrego Garcia attends a protest rally on his behalf at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore on Aug. 25. Gen. Todd Blanche, on a Fox News program after Abrego Garcia was charged in June, seemed to suggest that the Department of Justice charged Abrego Garcia because he won his wrongful-deportation case, Crenshaw wrote. If convicted in the Tennessee case, Abrego Garcia will be deported, federal officials have said. Abrego Garcia has an American wife and children and has lived in Maryland for years, but he immigrated to the United States illegally as a teenager. The government has provided no clear evidence of gang affiliation, and Abrego Garcia denies the allegation.