he illegally crossed in 2012

Posted on: April 16, 2025 at 09:31:37 CT

The story of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not about the wrongful deportation of a Maryland father. It's about the abuse of our immigration system by illegal migrants, the lawyers who help them lie, and the nonprofits who agitate to keep them in the country.

Abrego Garcia crossed into our country illegally in 2012 - by his own admission. He did not apply for asylum. He didn't show up at an embassy or at a port of entry to go through any kind of legal process. He just crossed.

Finally, the authorities found him in 2019, after he'd been living in the country illegally for seven years. He was set to be deported. He asked for bond - it was denied, because there was evidence that he was a member of MS-13, and he could not prove that he was not a danger to the community.

And yet somehow, this longtime illegal alien, who was denied bond, managed to avoid being deported. How?

By concocting what, by any objective measure, looks like a preposterous set of lies.

Abrego Garcia claimed that if he were deported, his life would be in danger. You see, he claims that he fled El Salvador in 2011 because his mother's pupusa business was being extorted by the Eighteenth Street Gang. And yes, that pupusa business closed, but no matter - the Eighteenth Street Gang was still threatening to kill him in 2019, he claimed.

Sure, he had no corroborating evidence whatsoever to back up his fantastical and highly convenient claims. No matter - an immigration judge said ok, granted him withholding of removal, and sent this removable illegal alien - who another immigration judge had found was likely in MS-13 - back into our community.

What on earth happened here? The indictment of our immigration system is not that now, 13 years after his initial illegal crossing, Abrego Garcia has finally been returned to his home country. The scandal is that he was able to stay here so long illegally - and that EVEN AFTER HE WAS DETAINED BY ICE, he managed to stay in the country for six further years. Somehow, on the verge of being sent home, he managed to figure out exactly what to say to stay in the country.

This was always a sham. And if the Democrats want to make him a martyr, Republicans should lean in. Because he's not an example of how our country wrongs illegal aliens; he's an example of how illegal aliens and their lawyers make a mockery of our country. The story of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not about the wrongful deportation of a Maryland father. It's about the abuse of our immigration system by illegal migrants, the lawyers who help them lie, and the nonprofits who agitate to keep them in the country.

Abrego Garcia crossed into our country illegally in 2012 - by his own admission. He did not apply for asylum. He didn't show up at an embassy or at a port of entry to go through any kind of legal process. He just crossed.

Finally, the authorities found him in 2019, after he'd been living in the country illegally for seven years. He was set to be deported. He asked for bond - it was denied, because there was evidence that he was a member of MS-13, and he could not prove that he was not a danger to the community.

And yet somehow, this longtime illegal alien, who was denied bond, managed to avoid being deported. How?

By concocting what, by any objective measure, looks like a preposterous set of lies.

Abrego Garcia claimed that if he were deported, his life would be in danger. You see, he claims that he fled El Salvador in 2011 because his mother's pupusa business was being extorted by the Eighteenth Street Gang. And yes, that pupusa business closed, but no matter - the Eighteenth Street Gang was still threatening to kill him in 2019, he claimed.

Sure, he had no corroborating evidence whatsoever to back up his fantastical and highly convenient claims. No matter - an immigration judge said ok, granted him withholding of removal, and sent this removable illegal alien - who another immigration judge had found was likely in MS-13 - back into our community.

What on earth happened here? The indictment of our immigration system is not that now, 13 years after his initial illegal crossing, Abrego Garcia has finally been returned to his home country. The scandal is that he was able to stay here so long illegally - and that EVEN AFTER HE WAS DETAINED BY ICE, he managed to stay in the country for six further years. Somehow, on the verge of being sent home, he managed to figure out exactly what to say to stay in the country.

This was always a sham. And if the Democrats want to make him a martyr, Republicans should lean in. Because he's not an example of how our country wrongs illegal aliens; he's an example of how illegal aliens and their lawyers make a mockery of our country.