A US federal judge has dismissed the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man at the center of controversy over immigration crackdowns. The judge ruled the indictment constituted an 'abuse of prosecuting power.'

A US federal judge dismissed a criminal case on Friday filed against a Salvadorean man at the centre of a row over US President Donald Trump’s crackdown on migrants. US District Judge Waverly Crenshaw ruled that the indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia by the Trump administration’s Justice Department was “an abuse of prosecuting power”. Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident married to an American woman, was among more than 200 people sent to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison in March of last year. The....