Posted on 04/18/2025 10:28:52 AM PDT by Starman417
Kilmar Abrego-Garcia isn’t a victim of a broken system. He’s not some misunderstood immigrant caught up in red tape. He’s a known MS-13 gang member with a violent history — and he was in the country illegally. Deporting him wasn’t just legal. It was necessary.
Let’s stop pretending this is complicated. Here’s what the facts show.
Garcia didn’t apply for a visa. He didn’t wait in line. He didn’t follow any legal process like millions of others have. He crossed into the U.S. through the desert near McAllen, Texas around March 2012. Right there, that’s a violation. Full stop. He wasn’t admitted. He wasn’t paroled. He had no legal right to be here. That alone is grounds for removal under immigration law. You don’t need a criminal record for that to matter. Being in the country illegally is enough.
This isn’t some gray area. This is black-and-white. The U.S. has immigration laws. He broke them. And once he did, it became the government’s job to send him back.
Garcia was stopped in Maryland in 2019 outside a Home Depot. He wasn’t alone. Two men with him were confirmed MS-13 gang members — one with prior convictions for gang activity, the other with tattoos that only higher-level members are allowed to have. Garcia himself was wearing a hoodie showing rolled-up bills covering the faces of presidents — over their eyes, ears, and mouths. The design represents the “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” mantra that’s common in MS-13 symbolism. His Bulls hat wasn’t just fashion, either. That logo has been linked to the gang before.
Police called a confidential informant who had given good information in the past. That source didn’t hesitate: Garcia was MS-13. His clique was “Westerns.” His rank was “Chequeo.” His nickname was “Chele.” That kind of detail doesn’t come from guesswork. That comes from someone who knows.
This wasn’t a one-off claim. ICE copied that same gang validation into their own report. Two judges reviewed the full record. Both found that Garcia was, in fact, a gang member. His legal team couldn’t refute it. They had no witnesses. No alternate story. Just complaints about the process. But immigration court doesn’t need the same standard as criminal court. It can rely on intelligence. On patterns. On behavior. And in Garcia’s case, the pattern was obvious.
The Department of Homeland Security later confirmed what local police suspected: Garcia wasn’t just affiliated with MS-13. He was violent. In 2021, his wife filed for a protective order. She accused him of punching her, scratching her arms, and tearing her clothes. Photos showed bruises. That wasn’t a misunderstanding. That was abuse.
DHS also linked Garcia to human trafficking. They didn’t publish the full intel, but they didn’t need to. Between his gang ties, illegal presence, domestic violence, and alleged trafficking involvement, there was more than enough to act.
This part is key. Garcia didn’t just break the law coming in. He also had no pathway to stay. He wasn’t married to a U.S. citizen. He didn’t have a green card. He didn’t file for asylum on time. He tried to argue later that he feared returning to El Salvador because of gang rivals like Barrio-18 — but that claim only came after the rest of his case fell apart. It looked like a last-ditch effort, not a real fear.
Meanwhile, thousands of people every year follow the rules. They apply legally. They wait. They pay fees. They show up to appointments. They go through background checks. That’s how legal immigration works. Garcia didn’t do any of that. He cut the line, broke the law, and then tried to argue that he should get to stay anyway. That’s not how this works.
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I can’t believe how tone deaf the democrats are. This joker’s plight moves the extremist end of their base, but no one else gives a damn about him and doesn’t want him back. Yet they’re trying to do a George Floyd canonization of him. I don’t think it’s going to work
Do the Democrats not remember Elian Gonzalez and Janet Reno?
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The headline in the Seattle Times yesterday was “Senator unable to meet with mistakenly deported man.”
I don’t think you become a member of MS-13 by filling out an application. I think you have to pull of some heinous crime. It would be interesting to find out what Van Hollen knows about what crime Abrego committed as
part of his initiation.
Dems have been choosing Death over Life for three generations. It’s only natural they should choose Crime over Law, Chaos over Order, Cruelty over Kindness, the 20% over the 80%.
Degenerate ideology breeds degenerate peeps. Losers. Hell-bound bitches.
I wonder how much of a refund he got on his taxes every year.
Democrats never hear it. They just here father who was mistakenly deported. They don’t know because evil CNN and MSNBC and PBS lie to them.
Governments choose which laws they enforce even though their job is to enforce all of them. The last 4 years have given the lefties a sense of entitlement. It’s good the Trump administration is not waiting to go on defense on this one. Cut and dried. The left and MSM vs. the voting majority. Make it a public fight-one that’s necessary.
“You have to take away the enemy’s will to fight.”
Robert Shaw. Battle of the Bulge.
bottom line
the dems do not want any deportations
they will do anything to gum up the works
Erez Reuveni, the doj attorney who was suspended for failing to advocate for the govt’s position, poisoned pilled the hearing with xinnis by saying garcia should not have been deported and erez said he would try to get him back
this career doj attorney torpedoed the case
and the dems have latched onto this to malign Trump/Bondi
this is how the deep state works
*** He wasn’t married to a U.S. citizen.***
So I’ve read that he’s married, to a woman he’s abused. This asserts that she’s not a U.S. citizen.
Is she? I don’t know anything about her.
This joker’s plight moves the extremist end of their base, but no one else gives a damn about him and doesn’t want him back.
Those sources don’t mention the gang ties and they downplay any court findings except the one judge giving a stay to his deportation because of the supposed fear of return.
People who hear or read of nothing but “no due process” tend to believe it until they learn differently.
Fortunately, many are learning differently.
He tried to argue later that he feared returning to El Salvador because of gang rivals like Barrio-18
gang rival barrio 18
doesnt that confirm his gang membership?
Apparently, the MS in MS-13 stands for Maryland Saint.
i believe she is a citizen
he married her to try to get a green card
didnt work
I’ve done some digging and it appears he is married to her and she is a citizen so that sentence has been removed.
“Garcia was MS-13. His clique was “Westerns.” His rank was “Chequeo.” His nickname was “Chele.””
This conflicts some other reports but who cares. Good riddance to this gangster.
Was Barrabas a wife beater?
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