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Lawyer For 'Maryland Man' On MSNBC: We're Not Defending His Character!
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 06/08/2025 2:00:52 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, aka Maryland Man, has now been extradited to the United States, and is facing a variety of serious charges relating to the smuggling of illegal aliens.

And based on what one of his lawyers said—and didn't say—on Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, things aren't looking too keen for Kilmar.

Interviewed by co-hosts Eugene Daniels and Jonathan Capehart, lawyer Benjamin Osorio:

Admitted that the car Abrego Garcia was driving when he was stopped for speeding by the Tennessee Highway Patrol was owned by a felon who had been convicted of smuggling illegal aliens into the US. [There were eight people in the car at the time. Abrego Garcia claimed they were construction workers he was transporting.]

Said: "We were never fighting for the character of this man." That echoed the statement by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who flew to El Salvador to meet with Abrego Garcia, and who said: "This is not about the man, it's his constitutional rights." Not exactly the kind of character witnesses a criminal defendant would hope for!

Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

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1 posted on 06/08/2025 2:00:52 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; KC_Lion; frank ballenger; ...

Go for it, Democrats: make Maryland Man your hero! Run on this in ‘26 and ‘28!

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 06/08/2025 2:02:07 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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Saving his Democrat ***, migrant worshipper Sen Van Hollen who flew to El Salvador to meet
Abrego Garcia now says: “This is not about the man, it’s his constitutional rights.”


Should have thought of that BEFORE embracing the illegal thug on broadcast tv.

Van Hollen embodies the kind of character witness a criminal illegal could only hope for.


3 posted on 06/08/2025 2:49:50 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

BTTT


4 posted on 06/08/2025 2:57:36 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Has it ever been decided by the Supreme Court that non-citizens or illegals have the SAME RIGHTS as citizens?

Or has it been decided that they don’t?

If it hasn’t been decided then those nine black-robed Nazguls better get off their asses and DECIDE. It’s important.


5 posted on 06/08/2025 3:13:22 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hail to Pitt!)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim
It seems that anyone who is in the country illegally would have no more rights
than he would at the border frontier. They have no standing, and no rights.

There was never any contract between the US and them.

6 posted on 06/08/2025 3:33:59 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It makes no sense if you are caught at the border you can immediately be deported but if you make it into the interior suddenly you have equal rights with a citizen.


7 posted on 06/08/2025 3:52:31 AM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

As my father aged, he developed a mental condition called “contrary responder.” If you said something was white, he’d angrily retort it was black. He was objectively wrong and if the discussion went very far you could see he was embarrassed by but would not abandon his response. I think this is what we’re seeing in the Democrats. There is no element of “law” or “constitutionality” these are pure Democrats but infesting the legal system. Their problem is they have this mental disease where no matter what Trump does, they instantly go to war against it. If Trump came out with an executive order extoling motherhood and apple pie they’d fly into a rage and start lawsuits to stop motherhood and apple pie.

The way I handled my father was to review everything I said so wherever appropriate he got to offer his opinion first. “What color’s that, dad?” My dad’s condition damaged his relationship with everyone, and he eventually ended up isolated. Trump doesn’t have the luxury of manipulating the black robes. On the good side, like my dad, the black robes are going to drive everyone away. Even other crazies don’t like being around a crazy.


8 posted on 06/08/2025 3:54:50 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I don’t get this:

ONCE YOU BREAK THE LAW...YOU HAVE NO DEFENSE...

SUCH BS, THIS IS SUCH A LOSING ARGUMENT FOR THE DEMONRATS,

I HOPE THEY CONTINUE WITH IT


9 posted on 06/08/2025 4:06:50 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Maris Crane

From the article, along similar lines to your commment:

We can imagine that Republican ad makers are already busy at work, sketching out clips featuring Van Hollen and other Democrats sticking up for Abrego Garcia. Call it the 2028 variation on the devastating “they/them” ad on Kamala’s support for taxpayer-funded transgender surgery for illegal alien inmates!

Are the liberal media and the Dems sure that Abrego Garcia is the hill they want their electoral hopes to die on?


10 posted on 06/08/2025 4:10:47 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Essentially, they are.


11 posted on 06/08/2025 4:12:37 AM PDT by metmom ( He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”)
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To: Liz

Constitutional rights are for citizens.


12 posted on 06/08/2025 4:13:12 AM PDT by metmom ( He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”)
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To: metmom

exactly


13 posted on 06/08/2025 4:42:00 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Van whatever your f’n name is…let him stay at your place alone with your wife and daughters. That’ll show us


14 posted on 06/08/2025 4:42:47 AM PDT by albie
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To: McGavin999

McGavin999.......It makes no sense:
<><>if you are caught at the border you can immediately be deported
<><>but if you make it into the interior suddenly you have equal rights with a citizen.


Excellent observation.


15 posted on 06/08/2025 4:45:15 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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To: metmom

Sorely lacking in civics education, we have failed to define and understand the relationship between universal principles, e.g. “all men are created equal,” and sovereign borders. That is why we have insane policies that harbor elements set upon defiance of law and order. We even elect them to public office.


16 posted on 06/08/2025 4:45:31 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Are you now, or have you ever been, a Democrat?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

No. Youre defending the process, if allowed to run thoroughly, guarantees a lifetime of work and very little illegals deported.


17 posted on 06/08/2025 4:58:04 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He was so fat that it took a year for his memory foam mattress to forget him. )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Ideal Democrat to be their Presidential candidate.


18 posted on 06/08/2025 5:01:20 AM PDT by cp124 (Bring back the Constitution.)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

I am betting the document the Founding Fathers signed applies only to the citizen, as the Preamble suggests as much

I’m sure they were aware that any other interpretation was ultimately suicide.

It also means that it is not necessary to go third world dictator on anybody who is not a citizen. You can be both polite and firm, while taking the position that they have no cover from the Constitution.


19 posted on 06/08/2025 5:02:24 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He was so fat that it took a year for his memory foam mattress to forget him. )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Groan !


20 posted on 06/08/2025 5:38:43 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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