The Democrats thought they had won a victory of sorts, but they got more than they bargained for. The MS-13 terrorist Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who entered the US illegally and had no legal residency status, has been returned from El Salvador after the Supreme Court demanded Trump facilitate his return. Now he will be given the due process they have been demanding, but that due process will be for federal human trafficking charges which could land the illegal alien in jail for ten years.
Abrego Garcia illegally immigrated to the United States in 2011 at age 16. Two separate immigration judges in 2019 determined he was an MS-13 gang member, denying him bond based on police informant testimony and gang evidence. Critically, MS-13’s designation as a foreign terrorist organization by Trump means gang members are ineligible for protection from removal.
Abrego Garcia was only granted “withholding of removal” – which prevented deportation specifically to El Salvador, not deportation generally. To revoke his protections after MS-13’s terrorist designation, the government would have been required to reopen immigration proceedings, which they did not do.
DHS revealed Abrego Garcia’s wife filed protective orders against him in both 2020 and 2021, alleging he kicked her, slapped her, punched and scratched her, ripped off her shirt, and “mentally abused her kids, locking them in their bedroom while they cried”. In 2021, she alleged he “punched and scratched” her eye, leaving her bleeding, and “grabbed and bruised” her arm. While his wife later claimed they “worked through” the issues with counseling, Abrego Garcia has no criminal convictions because the cases were dismissed when she failed to appear in court.
The Trump administration deported Abrego Garcia to El Salvador on March 15, 2025, as part of deportations of alleged gang members to CECOT mega-prison. The issue wasn’t that he was deported – he had no legal right to remain in the US. The only “error” was that he should have been sent to a different country, not El Salvador, due to the withholding order.
President Bukele initially refused to return him, asking “Are you suggesting I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? How can I return him to the United States?” However, Bukele later agreed to send him back “to face justice” after Trump administration negotiations.
On June 6, 2025, Abrego Garcia was charged with conspiracy to unlawfully transport illegal aliens for financial gain and unlawful transportation of illegal aliens for financial gain. The indictment alleges he transported thousands of migrants from Texas across the US between 2016-2025, making over 100 trips.
The charges stem from a November 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee where he was driving nine Hispanic passengers without luggage, falsely claiming they were construction workers from Missouri when cell phone data showed he had been in Texas that morning. Attorney General Pam Bondi also revealed uncharged allegations that Abrego Garcia solicited nude photos of a minor and participated in the murder of a rival gang member’s mother.
Ben Schrader, the 15-year veteran chief of the criminal division at the US Attorney’s Office in Nashville, resigned on May 21, 2025 – the same day the indictment was filed – over concerns the case was being pursued for political reasons. Schrader posted on LinkedIn about doing “the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons.” This type of liberal outrage is so dishonest in that it does not concern whether the person is guilty or not, only that the liberals don’t want him charged at all.
Defense attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg said: “The government disappeared Kilmar to a foreign prison in violation of a court order. Now, after months of delay and secrecy, they’re bringing him back, not to correct their error but to prosecute him.” This is another example of false framing of the incident. Trump did not deport Garcia to a foreign prison. He was deported to his country of citizenship, and under El Salvador law, all terrorists and gang members are locked up in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).
Garcia was only in that prison briefly, then was transferred to a normal prison, because President Nayib Bukele has zero tolerance for gangs and crime in general. As a result, the country’s murder rate has gone from 105 per 100,000 people in 2015 to just 1.9 per 100,000 in 2024 during his presidency, and normal people now have their lives back and are free to work, walk, and live normal lives free of danger.
Bukele’s tough-stance-on-crime has made El Salvador safer than Canada, with testimonies from Salvadoran citizens showing significant reduction of extortions among business owners and newfound freedom to enjoy public spaces. Despite some restrictions, the improvements in security have contributed to Bukele’s extremely high popularity, as many Salvadorans lived in fear for years of gangs that controlled swaths of the country, extorting, killing and forcibly recruiting.
Abrego Garcia faces up to 10 years in prison for each person he allegedly smuggled – potentially a life sentence. If convicted, the government plans to deport him to another country after he serves his sentence.
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