Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been returned
to the U.S. to face federal criminal charges
NBC News,
by
Suzanne Gamboa
,
Tom Winter
&
Chloe Atkins
Original Article
Posted By: mamabear,
6/6/2025 7:37:24 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whose erroneous deportation to El Salvador became a protracted battle over due process and a test of wills, has been returned to the United States to face human smuggling charges in Tennessee.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday in a news conference that he had landed in the U.S. “to face justice.”
Abrego Garcia has been named in an indictment charging him with transporting within the U.S. people not legally in the country. The two-count indictment, sealed by a Tennessee court last month, alleges that Abrego Garcia participated in a conspiracy over nine years to move people from Texas deeper into the country.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
aasilver 6/6/2025 7:49:44 PM (No. 1960924)
He was indicted in Tennessee not DC Federal.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/6/2025 8:28:34 PM (No. 1960928)
I agree with OP. This is a thorough waste of my tax dollars and the only likely result will be a conviction and then incarceration for life at enormous public expense. Heaven forbid he turn state's witness and receive a lesser sentence. Either way - WE are paying.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/6/2025 9:12:16 PM (No. 1960939)
If this is allowed to stand we have millions more to go through. One judge did this.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
singermom9 6/6/2025 9:25:34 PM (No. 1960942)
Use the same laws Obama used. No one objected to that.
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My opinion? Hang him by his little gonads in a public square, and we'll think about a trial down the line.
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Had Abrego Garcia remained in El Salvador he likely would have served less time in prison than he will now in the United States. Attorney General Bondi is demonstrating that most criminal aliens in Abrego Garcia's position will be better off simply accepting deportation rather than facing trial and incarceration in the US for the full range of their crimes.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MissMann 6/6/2025 10:40:38 PM (No. 1960956)
This train is going off the rails pretty quickly. No wonder Musk is so frustrated and disgusted with this administration. No regrets, Trump is still the only choice (over Harris/Walz), but Bondi, and many others, have been useless.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 6/6/2025 11:20:37 PM (No. 1960965)
#2 is 100% correct. This will drag out forever and cost the taxpayers a bundle, then this creep will enjoy life in prison, maybe.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
franco 6/6/2025 11:36:53 PM (No. 1960966)
#6: I hope you're right, but I have the same fears as the other posters... Now that he's back, the "illegal alien" lobby will use every bit of legal chicanery possible to minimize his jail time and also to keep him in the country. First bit of chicanery to watch for: Defense counsel will petition for a change of venue -- to suburban DC in the state of MD -- where "Maryland man" allegedly "lived"... Though the indictment was in Tennessee, I believe these are federal charges... so let's watch closely...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/7/2025 12:24:54 AM (No. 1960971)
"...the Maryland man....."
The Lamestreams manipulating the language to obscure the fact that he is a citizen of El Salvador.
This is acting in bad faith.
'Standard Operating Procedure' for the Lying Lamestreams.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
konocti95 6/7/2025 1:34:11 AM (No. 1960973)
Wait a minute...free transportation of illegal aliens from Texas to points north....According to FJB he's doing the Lord's work.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 6/7/2025 1:47:23 AM (No. 1960976)
He's in more trouble now that his "friends, helped him out". LOL. With friends like that....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
5 handicap 6/7/2025 5:35:10 AM (No. 1960996)
Did you notice how the LYING scum from NBC who wrote this article first described Garcia? "The Maryland Man"; he's as much a "Maryland Man " as Vladamir Putin is a Maryland Man! Obviously DEI is alive and well at NBC!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 6/7/2025 5:46:45 AM (No. 1960997)
Bottomline, Trump caved.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
anniebc 6/7/2025 7:11:44 AM (No. 1961022)
Are we still paying El Salvador for this criminal since he's baaaccck? This is a stupid move. So freakin' weak. He may face justice, but taxpayers get to keep paying for this illegal criminal. Pam Bondi needs a little bit more focus on things that matter. WTH?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 6/7/2025 7:57:30 AM (No. 1961043)
Don't give up on this move too soon. Trump may be playing a long game here. "OK, you say we should give this man due process (actually we don't, he is not a citizen) here's your due process. All the information will now be exposed in court as to what a murderous evil man this "migrant" and "Maryland Man" is. Illegal, MS-13 member, massive human trafficker including underage girls, wife beater etc etc. It certainly shows what a posturing fool that congressman Van Hollen is along with the various idiots who have been trying to use Garcia as some family man snatched up by the Gestapo ICE and sent back to where? The country he came from so he can no longer pursue his brutal criminality here on our dime?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/7/2025 8:26:10 AM (No. 1961049)
Chances are some Democrat activist Judge will set a cash bond to release “the Maryland Man” back into a US community. No doubt the Democrats will come up with whatever amount of cash bond is set. Then “the Maryland Man” can go about sucking up his ten year long “due process” rights until enough leftist and progressive Democrat politicians get into position to grant him amnesty, put him on “a path to citizenship” and he is transitioned into becoming a future leftist and progressive Democrat supporter and voter, along with millions of others! That’s the leftist and progressive Democrat long-term political objective as they go along playing their mass uncontrolled illegal immigration game, of which a lot of wimpy Republican politicians don’t have a clue. Common sense will tell you that all foreign criminal gang members located unlawfully in the USA, depending on how the “Maryland Man’s” case turns out, could easily be able to stop their removal (deportation) from the USA in the future by simply claiming that they could become some sort of victim of a rival criminal gang in their home country after being removed (deported) from the USA.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 6/7/2025 9:07:54 AM (No. 1961071)
Somehow, I don't think this is exactly the return to America scenario the Democrats had in mind.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
red1066 6/7/2025 9:25:03 AM (No. 1961077)
The media continues with the lie that this illegal was mistakenly deported. He's an illegal. Bringing him back serves no purpose except more media coverage with the narrative he was mistakenly deported.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
happywarrior 6/7/2025 9:36:18 AM (No. 1961082)
I hope #3 is wrong. Because now the dems will demand every illegal be returned like him for "due process."
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
rytwng 6/7/2025 10:13:30 AM (No. 1961092)
He has no rights he's a criminal. Woodchipper time.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 6/7/2025 10:21:17 AM (No. 1961095)
The No Bad Communists News network is sure working hard to paint this piece of trash as a victim. Maybe Trump should ban NBC from the press pool along with the AssPress.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 6/7/2025 1:31:24 PM (No. 1961162)
Re #14, nope, rather than a difficult fight with a judge, better to turn their "victory" into a big loss. Bring him back....compliance....but now he's in even bigger trouble. Don't use a sledgehammer when a judo move will do even better job.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
mamabear 6/7/2025 1:38:49 PM (No. 1961171)
FOLLOW-UP: Pres. Trump was asked about the decision by someone in the Air Force One press pool and he said it was done by the DOJ. From what and how he responded, I gathered he was informed and chose to trust their judgment.
Parts of Tennessee are red but the large cities (i.e. Memphis, Nashville) are run by democrats.
Why wasn't the grand jury information they gathered on Garcia for the indictment, (the basis of their legal case/his so-called due process) handled 'in absentia' (while absent, though absent), followed by a court order to unseal it for (or by) the media, and an arrest warrant should he ever make his way back to the US?
Maybe his co-conspirators will actually show up to testify in his court case. Maybe the DOJ will prove their case beyond doubt and the $$ spent will be justified. Maybe his attorneys won't ask for and get a change of venue to a democrat stronghold where he will likely be acquited. Maybe he will end up being quickly deported after all. Maybe it will help to clarify or establish better deportation policies and procedures. Or, maybe it will expose her weakness under political pressure, a fear of looking bad, or a CYAssets move. Apparently a DOJ oifficial in Nashville resigned because he felt the case was politically motivated. (https://deepnewz.com/us-judiciary/top-tennessee-federal-prosecutor-ben-schrader-resigns-over-doj-political-kilmar-f5a17950) Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. Maybe the American taxpayer will not have to foot the bill to feed, protect, and house an illegal alien who most folks think shouldn't have been here in the first place, much less returned from his home country. Maybe lefty lawyers and judges will choose not to broaden the implications of or exploit the DOJ's decision.
That's a lot of maybe's. So, I guess we'll have to pray, wait and see.
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Bondi she said he would never return. She was not under any duress. He is not an American citizen and he already had deportation orders. They could have done their research, made their case, indicted him in absentia and issued an arrest warrant should he find a way to return. What if he is tried and not found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt? This sets a bad precedent IMHO. They should have left well enough alone.