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A new filing from the New York attorney representing illegal alien “Maryland Dad” Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the federal human smuggling case against him out of Tennessee claims that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have threatened to deport him to Uganda.
According to reporting by our friends at the Tennessee Star, the Feds have presented an ultimatum to Abrego Garcia; accept a guilty plea in exchange for deportation to Costa Rica at the end of his prison sentence, or else be deported to Uganda.
Abrego Garcia has benefited from having his case in Maryland heard before soft on illegal aliens U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland, who prohibited U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from arresting Abrego Garcia immediately following his release from DOJ custody, and instead must give the illegal immigrant and his attorneys a 48-hour notice should they move forward with an immigration case against him. Xinis also required ICE to detain Abrego Garcia in Maryland, should he be arrested again by immigration authorities.
The Saturday filing claimed that a flurry of communications occurred between prosecutors and Abrego Garcia as his Friday release date from DOJ custody drew near. As of CHQ post time no deal has been struck and Abrego Garcia was rearrested upon his return to Maryland.
Abrego Garcia’s case has become a cause célèbre on the Left, where Democrats and their open borders allies have peddled the story that he was “mistakenly deported” and is now being vindictively prosecuted.
The Leftist narrative about the poor oppressed illegal alien goes like this: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a 29-year-old father of two from Maryland who had lived in the United States since 2005. He had no criminal convictions and was appealing a removal order when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported him on April 4.
Now, here’s the back story based on reporting by Ben Finley for the Associated Press, Abrego Garcia came to the United States illegally in 2005. In 2019, he went to a Home Depot looking for work when he was arrested by county police, according to court filings. Detectives asked if he was a gang member. After explaining he wasn’t, he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Abrego Garcia later told an immigration judge that he would seek asylum and asked to be released. His then-girlfriend was five months into a high-risk pregnancy.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, however, alleged that he was a certified gang member based on information that came from a confidential informant used by county police, records state.
In October 2019, an immigration judge denied Abrego Garcia’s asylum request but granted him protection from being deported back to El Salvador because of a “well-founded fear” of gang persecution, according to his case. He was released, and ICE did not appeal.
So, bottom line: Abrego Garcia came to the United States illegally and is an alleged gang member who has had a hearing and has been ordered deported. The information regarding his gang affiliation has been accepted in a finding of fact by an immigration judge.
The narrative that he was “mistakenly deported” reached the height of absurdity when United States District Court Judge for Maryland Paula Xinis issued an order requiring his return from El Salvador. Xinis’s order was later largely overturned by the United States Supreme Court which said the most a court could ever compel the Executive Branch to do would be to “facilitate” his return.
Now he’s back and as Tennessee Star reporter Tom Pappert explained, his prosecution is hardly “vindictive.”
In April, The Tennessee Star was the first to report that Abrego Garcia was suspected of being engaged in human trafficking by Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) officers who detained him during a 2022 traffic stop on I-40 in Putnam County; however, was let go at the time after the Biden-era Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) requested that the state officers release him and the nine other passengers in the vehicle.
Pappert, who has followed and reported on Abrego Garcia’s case since The Star broke the story regarding the 2022 traffic stop of the alleged human smuggler, disputed claims by Abrego Garcia’s defense team that the charges against him are “vindictive” and politically motivated.
He emphasized that if a U.S. citizen had been caught in a similar situation as Abrego Garcia, arrests would have been certain.
“If you or I were driving without a valid license and got pulled over, that alone is reason enough that we are not going to be driving to our destination that day. If we were also speeding, also had nine people, probably an unsafe number in the vehicle and also suspected of human trafficking, I guarantee you, we would not have gotten the same treatment as Kilmar Abrego Garcia did that night, and we certainly would not have had the Biden-era FBI intervening on our behalf,” Pappert said on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
Pappert said he strongly believes that the current prosecution against Abrego Garcia is simply an attempt by the Trump-era DOJ to correct the “selective non-prosecution” under the Biden administration.
“This is not a vindictive prosecution. This is the Trump administration and the Trump DOJ scrambling, doing everything they can to figure out exactly what was going on for the four years that Trump was out of office and then trying to correct things. In my opinion, Abrego Garcia was let go back in November of 2022 because it was two weeks after the midterm elections and the standing orders from the Biden regime were to cover up the illegal immigration crisis in the country. So now, they make it seem as though they’ve invented these charges,” Pappert said.
“We’ve seen the body camera footage, we’ve read the police reports. We’ve read the DHS report that says Abrego Garcia was suspected of human trafficking. Their only case on this being vindictive, in my opinion, is that certain members of the Trump administration have said some mean things about Abrego Garcia…. But everything they said was true. They had some evidence behind it. For example, if Abrego Garcia is a member of MS 13, that is a terrorist organization,” he added.
Various members of the Trump administration have said that Abrego Garcia would “never go free on American soil” and nor should he. If he doesn’t like his native El Salvador or Costa Rica, Uganda looks good to us.
- Donald Trump
- illegal immigration
- Kilmar Abrego Garcia
- Department of Justice
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- deport to Uganda
- deportation
- U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis
- "Maryland Dad"
- gang member
- asylum
- human trafficking
- MS 13 gang
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