Democrats and their leftist media allies treat “Maryland dad” Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia like a devoted member of a PTA chapter in College Park. When he’s not driving his kids to Little League games in Chevy Chase, the fake news would have you believe, he takes them to Annapolis to deepen their appreciation for the Navy’s heroic contribution to American history.
Even if Abrego Garcia did these things, the non-paternal activities of this “Maryland dad” merit his deportation and permanent banishment from America.
The mere fact that a man has children does not automatically place a halo over his head. If so, Joseph Goebbels would be remembered as a “Berlin dad,” rather than as the Third Reich’s minister of propaganda and public enlightenment. While Abrego Garcia is no war criminal, he is no soccer coach, either.
Despite Democrats’ relentless hair-pulling and teeth-gnashing to the contrary—not least Sen,. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., sharing margaritas with him in El Salvador on Thursday—Abrego-Garcia is a reprehensible man.
First, he is an illegal alien. Abrego Garcia broke into America with neither permission nor papers. How do we know this? He said so.
According to a March 28, 2019, Prince George’s County, Maryland, Police Department gang field interview sheet, “Abrego-Garcia is a citizen and national of El Salvador. Abrego-Garcia claimed to have walked across the desert for many days entering illegally into the United States near McAllen, Texas, on or about March 25, 2012,” during the Obama-Biden regime.
The moment Abrego Garcia’s toe touched American soil, he violated U.S. Code 8 § 1325—Improper Entry by Alien. As such, this illegal alien invaded this country and has zero right to be here. America owes Abrego Garcia nothing more than a swift boot in the backside. That’s what he got when President Donald Trump deported him to El Salvador, from whence he came.
Even worse, Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13. This lethal Salvadoran street gang has earned a reputation not just for killing its victims; it is fond of signaling its barbarity by chopping its prey into pieces.
“Abrego Garcia was validated as a member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) Gang … a transnational criminal street gang,” the interview sheet states. “This information was provided by [redacted], who has provided truthful accurate information in the past.”
This document aside, Abrego Garcia’s MS-13 membership is not some mega-MAGA hallucination. Thanks to the due process that he received (Democrat lies notwithstanding), two federal jurists concur.
“The Respondent was arrested in the company of other ranking gang members and was confirmed to be a ranking member of the MS-13 gang by a proven and reliable source,” a federal immigration court in Baltimore ruled on April 29, 2019. “… the evidence shows that he is a verified member of MS-13,” the bond memorandum continues. “Although the Court is reluctant to give evidentiary weight to the Respondent’s clothing as an indication of gang affiliation, the fact that a ‘past, proven and reliable source of information’ verified the Respondent’s gang membership, rank, and gang name is sufficient to support that the Respondent is a gang member, and the Respondent has failed to present evidence to rebut that assertion.”
This immigration court denied Abrego Garcia bond. He appealed. The Justice Department’s Board of Immigration Appeals ruled on Dec. 19, 2019: “We adopt and affirm the Immigration Judge’s danger ruling,” the appeals board concluded. It added, “… the immigration judge appropriately considered allegations of gang affiliation against the respondent … .” Thus: “The appeal is dismissed.”
Meanwhile, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, Abrego Garcia’s spouse, defends him today. However, she previously hid from his apparent serial wife-beating. She received two protective orders against him, dated Aug. 3, 2020 and June 6, 2021. Cause? “Domestic Violence.”
Vasquez’s petition for protection/peace order, filed May 5, 2021, in Prince George’s County, Maryland, states:
- “I am afraid to be close to him. I have multiple photos/videos of how violate [sic] he can be and all the brusies [sic] he has left me.”
- “Dec 2019, Nov. 2020 hit me with his work boot.”
- “August 2020, hit me in the eye leaving me a purple eye.”
- On May 4, 2021, Abrego Garcia “punched, scratched me on my left eye, leaving me bleeding.”
Worst of all, Abrego Garcia is a terrorist. He is a member of MS-13. On Feb. 20, the State Department designated MS-13 a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Ergo, as an FTO member, Abrego is a terrorist.
“The media would love for you to believe that this is a media darling, that he is just a Maryland father,” said Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of Homeland Security. “Osama Bin Laden was also a father, and yet, he was not a good guy, and they actually are both terrorists.”
“The gang that he is a senior member of, with tattoos and duds to prove it, has the motto ‘Kill, Rape, Control,’ and that is what they do. When he wasn’t roughing up his girlfriend, he led a group of other demented thugs who rape and traffic girls, terrorize families in the community, shoot and hack suspected rivals for sport, and lure young boys into their life of violence,” Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies with the Center for Immigration Studies, told me.
Chris Van Hollen and the other Democrats complaining about his removal should have to sit in a room for as long as it takes to hear the families of every one of their victims describe what happened to their loved ones.
But none of this sways the Democrat-Left, whose love of illegal aliens is unconditional and infinite.
“We got to keep fighting this,” veteran Democrat campaign strategist James Carville declared. “I think this is worthy of being at the top agenda of things that we’re going to fight over is to get this guy back home”
“Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an innocent man and the father of three,” claimed Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. “He must be brought home immediately.”
Van Hollen wrote via X: “Today we met with the family of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland dad wrongly deported by Trump. The pain they’re feeling is unimaginable.”
Van Hollen did not feel the pain of the family of Rachel Morin, the Maryland mom of five whom Salvadoran illegal alien Victor Martinez-Hernandez raped, brutalized, and murdered. Patty Morin, Rachel’s mother, on Wednesday told the White House press corps, in blood-curdling detail, how this killer slaughtered her daughter.
A Maryland jury deliberated for just 46 minutes before convicting Martinez-Hernandez on every count he faced:
- First-degree premeditated murder
- Third-degree sexual offense
Among other evil acts, Martinez-Hernandez dragged Morin 150 feet from a running trail to a quieter spot in a park. He then smashed Morin’s head and face with a rock at least 20 times before throwing her against a wall and raping her, while she was barely alive, if that.
Since Martinez-Hernandez was convicted on April 14, Patty Morin’s April 16 statement at the White House was both gripping and timely. Regardless, CNN and MSNBC did not carry this grieving mother’s excruciating account live. (Fox News Channel did, of course.)
Patty Morin has spoken and met with President Trump, who has comforted her. She never has heard from Van Hollen, her own senator.
“Why does this illegal immigrant have more rights than my daughter, Rachel Morin, did?” Patty Morin wondered in the White House Press Gallery. “You represent me as the U.S. senator from Maryland, and you have barely even acknowledged my daughter and the brutal death that she endured because of another illegal immigrant,” Morin expressed to Van Hollen from the podium. “Why are you using my taxpayer money to fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that’s not even an American citizen?”
This epitomizes today’s Democratic Party, their leftist street muscle, and dinosaur-media comrades: They race to the rescue when deadly illegal aliens are in trouble, but do not give a damn about American citizens who get killed, thanks to the same illegals whom they love like “Maryland dads.”
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