The White House has dug in on its refusal to return a man who US officials have acknowledged was wrongly deported last month from Maryland to an El Salvador mega-prison.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down on accusations that Salvadoran national Kilmar Ábrego García was a member of the MS-13 gang, which his lawyer denies.
Leavitt also accused the 29-year-old of domestic violence, citing records showing his US citizen wife once filed a protective order against him.
A Maryland judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to bring Mr Ábrego García back to the US. But El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said on a visit to the White House this week that he did not “have the power” to return him.
Where are you getting this information?
From Fox News, because it’s patently bullshit. Garcia was never proven to be a gang member and the only connection was coerced testimony from a confidential informant who was facing deportation if they didn’t act as an informant, who gave the information to a detective who has since been fired from his position for multiple abuses of power and for lying under oath. Garcia was arrested for being brown outside of a home depot, not for any actual crime.
Every single attempt that has been made to force the US DOJ to produce proof of his gang membership has been denied, because it’s all a lie. FugginJerk just drank the kool-aid while telling other people not to drink the kool-aid.
But even that is beside the point – even if it wasn’t bullshit, he’s still owed due process as part of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
As far as being arrested in the company of known MS-13 gang members while carrying drugs: PUBLIC RECORD. As far as beating his wife and having an order of protection filed against him: PUBLIC RECORD. His wife’s own sworn affidavit, and the pictures she provided to the police after he bet her up again, public record as well as the evidence provided to the media. This stuff isn’t hard to find. Everyone is scared to death that the government might have gotten something right for once. It doesn’t generate enough clicks, so people don’t like to admit it. As far as being a criminal in El Salvador, it’s alleged, not proven, that he was connected to gang activity before fleeing at the age of 16. The rest of it is absolutely proven and documented.
So was he a criminal or not in El Salvador? Because to me it sounds like you just lied and are now trying to move the goalposts. Due process is the issue here, if you can’t understand that then don’t be surprised when people you know are wisked away to a prision in a foreign country.
So why not have a trial? Or follow the current established extradition process?
You say it’s easy to find, yet I’m not finding anything. Can you point to a specific source?
That’s a lot of typing to say you don’t give a fuck about the constitution. Why don’t you just say you don’t believe the gov’t should be bound by the constitution?