Posted on 06/08/2025 7:40:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, whom I’ve argued should just give up on his Democrat roots and come over to the party of reason, thinks that Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his backers made a poor choice to push for his return to the U.S. to face criminal charges for smuggling illegal immigrants. As we’ve reported, the alleged MS-13 gangbanger was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March and quickly became the left’s newest hero.
Dershowitz appeared on “The Record with Greta Van Susteren” Friday and said that Abrego Garcia and all his Democrat supporters may rue the day they lobbied so hard for this:
“I think it was a big mistake for him and his supporters to try to bring him back to the country,” Dershowitz said. “He’ll regret that. He’d have been a lot better off if he had made the following motion, if he had said ‘Look I’m deportable, and I don’t want to come back into the country.'”
Watch:
The United States is definitely one place he should not want to go:
Dershowitz added that Garcia’s best chance for freedom would have been to accept deportation to a safer country. He specifically mentioned Argentina as a potential destination that could have avoided the risks associated with returning to the U.S.
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Dershowitz continued, saying Abrego Garcia might have had a shot at freedom but now he’s potentially facing years staring at concrete walls:
“‘Just don’t send me to a country that poses danger. Send me to Argentina.’ He might have won that case, and he would be a free man. Now he’s going to, if he’s convicted, spend a lot of time in prison, and he’s going to wish he had been deported,” Dershowitz said.
🚨 #BREAKING: Pam Bondi officially announces Kilmar Abrego Garcia will be returned to the US after the DOJ uncovered he made OVER 100 SMUGGLING TRIPS of illegals
A grand jury found human trafficking was Garcia's FULL TIME JOB, and he frequently ABUSED women.
THIS IS THE… pic.twitter.com/MHbmJ4PpnX— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 6, 2025
THIS IS THE DEMOCRATS' HERO.
Bondi says Garcia will eventually be returned back to El Salvador after he completes his sentence in an American prison.
Meanwhile, the famed lawyer said, Abrego Garcia’s backers—like Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D) actually did him no favors and cared more about their own soundbites than they did about him:
Dershowitz said Garcia’s supporters might not have served his best interests by encouraging him to come back to the country…
“When backers support people, they don’t always serve the best interest of people. Because they have a narrative. They have an ideology that they’re serving. The best interests of this man probably would have been served by not coming back to the country,” Dershowitz said.
As RedState’s Nick Arama reported in May, Abrego Garcia is no hero:
…Abrego-Garcia was pulled over in the state on suspicion of human trafficking in 2022. Highway patrol officers found eight other people in the car, which was registered to a convicted human smuggler. They also found $1400 in cash, which was suspected to be payment for the run. The then-Biden-led ICE never showed up to detain Abrego-Garcia on what would have presumably been federal charges, and he was released.
Now, the convicted human smuggler has not only been revealed, but he's cooperating with the Trump administration's Department of Justice. As part of a "limited immunity" deal, Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes has confirmed that he did hire Abrego-Garcia to traffic illegal immigrants.
The Democrats don’t actually care what happens to the guy; that was all performance theater because they thought they could use the issue to “get Trump.” They’re likely to end up with serious egg on their faces, and Abrego Garcia will, as Dershowitz opines, deeply regret coming back to the US of A.
I wonder if they planned to bait the Dems with this case.
Where is his go fund me?
And love letters?
And free lawyers?
I usually respect Mr D on legal stuff but when it comes to comparing US prisons vs El Salvador there is no comparison. Plus this illegal might not get convicted.
The only way that El Salvador could send a known terrorist back to the United States was through an extradition order so he could be tried for crimes in the US. By requiring the federal govt to absolutely get him back here (the judge’s idea of “facilitating” his return), the judge actually demanded that they file criminal charges against him. Of course, the judge knew that he was a criminal so I guess it wasn’t too hard for the feds to do.
Oh - and there’s one other thing that needs to happen too.
The FBI people who knew that he was a human trafficker and told the TN cops to let him go..... they need to be sent to Gitmo.
Or a future Democrat president may pardon him, God forbid.
I can’t imagine a fate worse than the prison he was in.
How do you know that? Is violence allowed in El Salvador? It is in the US. Ask Whitey Bulger.
The investigation is ongoing. No one gets pardoned once the death penalty takes effect.
Ask Jeffery Epstein.
And Vince Foster, Seth Rich, and a whole long line of arkancide victims.
Abrego-Garcia most recently resided in a town in Maryland where, during the time period he was there, the local MS-13 leader held a meeting of his “lieutenants,” and during this meeting a dispute broke out among the thugs that resulted in the brutal stabbing of a kid. The stabbed this kid some 100 times then hauled his body across state lines to Virginia and set the kid’s body on fire in a field or something like that...
If this Abrego-Garcia was regularly smuggling people for this gang leader then. it is possible he could be connected to much worse.
It seems odd to me that no one is asking about Garcia’s income tax payments. This so-called ‘Maryland dad’ should have an IRS record. Was he paying proper income taxes on this $1400 and all the other income he had in order to live his lifestyle as a ‘Maryland dad’?
You think? :-)
Anything that’s crazy stupid or illegal is pro democrat no surprise in their actions.
Kilmar still wins.
He gets to spend the rest of his life in an American prison rather than CECOT.
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