Family Values: MSM Style

And yes, I am concerned about due process; it was denied Trump multiple times

And not just the Atlantic, CNN, NBC, KTLA all get the same input and repeat it (GIGO)

From the Daily Caller: "Maryland Father" Should've Been Deported Years Ago

Amber Duke, Senior Editor

April 3

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In the last few weeks, the media has proven it is willing to ally with the complete dregs of society to dishonestly attack the Trump administration.

Take the recent liberal bellyaching over the deportation of a “Maryland father.”

The Atlantic dropped an article Tuesday that claimed a “Maryland father” was mistakenly sent to El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison by the Trump administration.

Naturally, the article waits until the third paragraph to reveal that the “Maryland father” — Kilmar Abrego Garcia — is actually a Salvadoran national who has been living in the United States illegally for over a decade.

It gets worse from there.

I spent a few hours actually reading all of the court filings in Abrego Garcia v. Noem. It is about 200 pages in total across approximately three dozen documents. You can find them yourself here.

The short version is that Abrego Garcia is very likely a member of a brutal Salvadoran gang and should have been deported a long time ago.

He was first picked up by immigration authorities in 2019.

DHS said they had credible evidence that Abergo Garcia was a member of MS-13. He was picked up outside of a Home Depot (stereotypical much?) alongside several other ranking members of the gang. A confidential informant told police that Abrego Garcia was a part of the gang and provided his official rank and gang nickname.

Abrego Garcia was also clad in Chicago Bulls apparel — odd for a Marylander, but not something to raise an eyebrow at unless combined with those other details.

An immigration judge found this evidence convincing enough to deny Abrego Garcia’s bond, citing him as a potential danger to the community.

“The DHS asserted that the Respondent is a verified gang member. The Respondent was arrested in the company of other ranking gang members and was confirmed to be a ranking member of the MS-13 gang by a proven and reliable source,” Judge Elizabeth A. Kessler wrote at the time.

Abrego Garcia was also deemed a flight risk because he had several civil traffic violations that he failed to appear for in court.

“The Respondent’s lack of diligence in following up on his traffic court cases indicates that he cannot be trusted to appear in immigration court,” Kessler wrote.

Oopsie!

He appealed the decision, and his bond was rejected a second time by the Board of Appeals.

Instead of taking his complaint further, Abrego Garcia opted to make a new claim for asylum … seven years after first arriving in the U.S. illegally.

(He also married his American citizen fiancé during a conjugal visit while in immigration detention.)

In his asylum claim, Abrego Garcia claimed he had to flee El Salvador because members of Barrio 18, a rival gang to MS-13, were extorting his poor mother’s pupusa business. Somehow only he and his brother were required to immigrate illegally to the US to stop the threats — the rest of the family stayed behind.

Even though Abrego Garcia missed the deadline to apply for asylum by six years, an immigration judge decided he was exempt. Instead of granting full asylum, though, Abrego Garcia was given a “withdrawal from removal.”

Essentially, he can be deported — just not to El Salvador.

This is where the government’s “administrative error” comes in. Abrego Garcia was listed as an “alternate” on one of the deportation flights to El Salvador. I suspect the government planned to contest his “withdrawal of removal” before he made it onto a plane. However, before that could happen, he was moved to the flight manifest after another alien was removed — and the fact that he had a withholding of removal somehow didn’t make it onto that document.

The Trump administration is now rightfully pointing out two key things in response to Abrego Garcia’s complaint: 1. He is a Salvadoran national now under the jurisdiction of his home country. If President Bukele wants to put him in CENTCO, that’s his decision to make and, 2. The U.S. government has no obligation or incentive to provide redress in the form of extradition for Abrego Garcia considering they believe he is a member of a violent transnational gang. The U.S. government should not be in the business of repatriating illegal alien gang members.

Multiple members of the Trump administration have also said this week that they have credible intelligence that Abrego Garcia was involved in human trafficking.

Obviously, the Trump administration needs to be careful not to make these types of errors. It slows down the process and provides ammunition to the “but muh due process” crowd.

But Abergo Garcia is not some poster child for a human rights violation, and we should all be glad he’s not in America anymore.