Media Lie About Deported ‘Maryland Father’s’ Legal Status, Downplay His Gang Ties

The Federalist ^ | April 02, 2025 | Brianna Lyman

[E. Pluribus Unum]

In fact, the only real scandal here is that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was able to stay for as long as he did.

The propaganda press is once again distorting the truth — and in some cases, flat out lying — to discredit and undermine President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts. In the latest example, the media are painting an illegal alien — who is allegedly a gang member — as merely a “Maryland father” with “protected legal status” who was “mistakenly” swept up in a mass deportation.

On Monday, The Atlantic’s Nick Miroff wrote that the Trump administration “mistakenly” sent a “Maryland father with protected legal status” to a Salvadoran prison due to an “administrative error.”

“The case appears to be the first time the Trump administration has admitted to errors when it sent three planeloads of Salvadoran and Venezuelan deportees to El Salvador’s grim ‘Terrorism Confinement Center’ on March 15,” Miroff wrote. He later cited Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s attorney who, in Miroff’s words, “said he’s never seen a case in which the government knowingly deported someone who had already received protected legal status from an immigration judge.”

Further down in the article, Miroff clarifies that a judge ordered Abrego Garcia not to be sent back to “his home country” — but that’s very different that having “protected legal status” that would shield Abrego Garcia from deportation entirely.

Abrego Garcia illegally crossed the border in 2011 and was “detained in March 2019 and charged with removability.” He was denied bond in 2019 after an immigration judge concluded that evidence “show[ed] [Abrego Garcia] is a verified member of MS-13” and that Abrego Garcia did not prove “that his release from custody would not pose a danger to others.”

The judge also found that Abrego Garcia...

[Parley Baer]

The media twists a lot of stories in order to get Trump. Just like the tariffs, they never tell the public what the tariffs are on the imports from this country. A lot of them are left over from WW2. I am glad Trump is fighting back.

[cuz1961]

Media Lie ? ;-)

[kvanbrunt2]

Abrego Garcia illegally crossed the border in 2011 and was “detained in March 2019 and charged with removability.” He was denied bond in 2019 after an immigration judge concluded that evidence “show[ed] [Abrego Garcia] is a verified member of MS-13” and that Abrego Garcia did not prove “that his release from custody would not pose a danger to others.”>>>>> hence the aliens deportation law. Little did they know that part of the foreign government was our own legal system.

[frank ballenger]

The Atlantic is long overdue for a big time whuppin’.

Deliberately leaving out pertinent facts.

Guilty.