By J. Holly McCall | Editor-in-Chief
Good morning, Lookout readers.
Today is Memorial Day, which unofficially marks the start of summer but is officially the solemn occasion on which we honor the men and women who died in the line of military duty.
As such, our newsletter is brief today. As you go about your day, give a thought to those members of the military, and we’ll be back tomorrow.
THE LOOKOUT’S TOP STORY
Kilmar Abrego Garcia arriving at a downtown Nashville courthouse with his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, for a Feb. 26. 2026 hearing to decide whether the federal government is vindictively prosecuting him on human smuggling charges (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
by Cassandra Stephenson
A federal judge on Friday dismissed a criminal indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 30-year-old man living in Maryland who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last year, calling the prosecution “vindictive and selective.”
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Carmen Cancino and her daughter Ximena Lopez at a December protest against arrests of immigrants at green card appointments in Salt Lake City. The Trump administration is threatening to force legal immigrants applying for green cards to return home first and wait for processing. (Photo by Annie Knox, Utah News Dispatch)
by Tim Henderson
Immigrants seeking green cards will have to return first to their home countries and wait despite years of potential backlogs, the Trump administration announced Friday.
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