I had an interesting discussion with Grok yesterday about the Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia deportation case, and it got me thinking a lot about the public discussion and why it is so bizarre to me.
Grok helped clarify the basics about the standards of proof required in such cases, the legal niceties, and why people are making arguments that due process was not completely followed. My own uneducated judgment is that the case against him is relatively cut and dried, although I don’t know whether it would hold up in a criminal trial.
Politically, though, all that is a sideshow. Thousands of complicated legal cases go on every day, and many are resolved in ways that are deeply unsatisfying because complicated legal cases are rarely as cut and dried as they appear on TV. When you get into high-stakes, politically charged cases, they never are perfect.
This one, in an immigration case, should be a slam dunk.
To me, the interesting thing about this case is not how it is resolved–after all, if Garcia somehow is sprung from prison in El Salvador he is still deportable and will just wind up somewhere else. He will never return home as a “Maryland man” because he is an illegal alien who is set to be deported by court order.
Scott Jennings: The media is panicking about deported “Maryland man” but not about “Maryland mother” Rachel Morin. pic.twitter.com/OkpjDe7AXT
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) April 15, 2025
Still, in a world where Nigerian Christians are being massacred by the thousands, hundreds of thousands of Americans are overdosing on fentanyl, children are being raped and murdered by illegal immigrants, and politicians are forcing women and girls to undress in front of men, the entire liberal establishment is in a tizzy over this one ever so barely ambiguous case.
NEW: @FoxNews has obtained the written domestic violence allegations from Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife in 2021, in which she alleges he is a repeat wife beater & writes “At this point, I am afraid to be close to him. I have multiple photos/videos of how violent he can be and all… pic.twitter.com/s7yCji9jjq
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 16, 2025
Why are they fighting so hard on this likely losing issue? Whatever they say, it isn’t about what they claim. There are between 20-30 million illegal immigrants in the United States–Joe Biden let in over 10 million through illegal means–and Americans want them gone. Democrats do not.
Democrats put criminals and illegals before Americans every single time. Where is this outrage on the left for the American hostages in Gaza? pic.twitter.com/Uc1pIKPscz
— Trump Girl 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲 (@MAGA__Patriot) April 16, 2025
Winning Garcia’s case is so important because they want to establish that every single deportation case should go to a trial, basically, where the standard is “beyond a reasonable doubt.” He appears to be an MS 13 gang member? Prove it in court! He is accused of beating his wife? Well, she never pressed charges!
As if these are the standards for deporting an illegal alien with a deportation order.
🚨 BOOM! Stephen Miller just TORCHED Senator Chris Van Hollen over his trip tomorrow to help bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador pic.twitter.com/XnXzK0fhmT
“[He] seems to be under the very confused impression that this MS-13 terrorist is his constituent. He is…
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 16, 2025
Garcia is almost certainly associated with MS-13. He is not PROVEN to be a member of MS 13 in a court of law, and you see lots of liberals demanding PROOF to their satisfaction that he is. Otherwise, they claim, this is tyranny.
🚨 #BREAKING: The Trump DOJ has just released documents from Homeland Security labeling the man deported to El Salvador as MS-13
“Subject has been identified as a Member/Active of MS-13”
Even the Prince George’s County, Maryland gang unit VALIDATED him as MS-13. pic.twitter.com/W4F3P7zn1J
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 16, 2025
Not only is that not the legal standard, but as a practical matter, they are demanding that once an illegal alien sets foot in the United States, they get what amounts to a trial before they get deported. That is, logistically, impossible. 30 million trials? Not going to happen. It is logistically impossible for it to happen. Nobody wants it to happen, not even Democrats.
What they want is as few deportations as humanly possible, so demanding an impossible standard is about stopping deportations.
NEW: Scott Jennings torpedoes Democrat shill’s entire MS-13 gang member defense—with one devastating question.
It didn’t feel like a CNN panel.
It felt like a National Geographic nature documentary—where a predator stalks its prey, just waiting for that one fatal misstep.… pic.twitter.com/n25obSi3Os
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) April 16, 2025
The Garcia case is not about Garcia. His is a convenient case on which to build their narrative, and that narrative is all about slowing deportations to a trickle. What they want is to make the Biden influx of illegal aliens permanent, and they are engaged in a full-scale propaganda war to make people believe that without a trial, nobody should be deported.
DOJ releases additional information about “Maryland man” and illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
In 2019 the Prince George’s County Police Gang Unit determined Garcia was an MS-13 gang member w/ contacts to other members. He admitted he was in the U.S. illegally after arrest… pic.twitter.com/7aIFn7Pqrm
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 16, 2025
What I discovered after digging around is that the case is super complicated and that the critics of the Trump administration have some potential legal ground to stand on if you hire enough high-priced lawyers. The case is not impregnable, so it must be thrown out!
Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a history of violence and was not the upstanding “Maryland Man” the media has portrayed him as.
According to court filings, Garcia’s wife sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, claiming he punched, scratched, and ripped off her shirt,… pic.twitter.com/FpSV0k3i90
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) April 16, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a history of violence and was not the upstanding “Maryland Man” the media has portrayed him as. According to court filings, Garcia’s wife sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, claiming he punched, scratched, and ripped off her shirt, among other harm.This MS-13 gang member is not a sympathetic figure.
Many liberals danced the “I don’t approve of violence, but…” dance when Brian Thompson was shot in the back, and when Trump got shot, they blamed him for the violence. They are silent about the Tesla terrorism, cheered at the George Floyd riots, and seem fine with Karmelo Anthony profiting off his murder. Justice? Yeah, no.
The passion isn’t about justice. This case is just another tool to use to get ignorant people riled up against deportations.
Even if Garcia had a better case, if he were not useful to their cause, not a single talking head would care a whit about him. He would not be on their radar.
This is about thwarting Trump’s policies, not due process or anything else.
