The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now referring all questions regarding the 2022 Tennessee Highway Patrol traffic stop of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, even though State News Foundation inquiries had nothing to do with either DHS or ICE.
As The Tennessee Star has reported, on the evening of November 30, 2022, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was stopped by the Tennessee Highway Patrol for driving erratically. Troopers suspected that the eight people in the SUV were illegal aliens and that Garcia, who was driving with an expired Maryland Driver’s License, may have been part of a Human Trafficking operation.
As has been widely reported the FBI either ordered or requested that Garcia and his SUV be released. There have been other reports DHS was contacted that night but declined to respond to the scene. So, the question remains, who on the federal level was involved in the decision.
There would have been more clarity on the matter were it not for the fact that the Tennessee Highway Department redacted parts of the police cam video that involved conversations with unnamed federal officials. Though the video confirms that Troopers on the scene strongly believed they had encountered a potentially illegal operation, they redacted the audio conversations Troopers had that night with federal law enforcement partners.
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