Yet another far-left Democratic congressman wasted tax money on a trip to El Salvador to visit deported wife-beating terror-gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This time, it was Glen Ivey, who represents Maryland’s fourth district. He claims Garcia is one of his “constituents.” In fact, Garcia not a “constituent,” being a Salvadoran citizen, but in any event, Ivey says the government of hard-as-nails President Nayib Bukele knew that he, Ivey, would visit and why, but then refused him.
The angry congressman wants Bukele to “cut the crap” as badly as Americans want illegal-alien terror gang members packed off to the countries where they belong.
The “Wrongly Deported” Man’s Story
Democrats and the far-left Democrat Media Megaphone say Garcia was “wrongly deported” without “due process.” And they cite a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” his return.
Problem for the Democrats is, as White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has explained, Garcia was not “wrongly deported.” That claim came, Miller said, from a “ DOJ lawyer who has since been relieved of duty, a saboteur, a Democrat, [who] put into a filing, incorrectly, that this was a mistaken removal. It was not! This was the right person sent to the right place.”
Garcia had a final order of deportation, and while he had a “withholding order,” meaning a hold on his deportation, his membership in the MS-13 terror gang nullifies it. “If you are a member of a foreign terrorist organization, you cannot have a withholding order,” Miller explained not only on Fox News but also to reporters who pressed the issue at the White House during Bukele’s state visit.
For his part, Bukele told reporters that he would not release a terrorist. And asking him to do so is “preposterous.”
Since that meeting in April and after Garcia landed at El Salvador’s terrorist confinement center, a mountain of evidence that proves the Salvadoran thug is exactly who the administration says he is: a wife-beating gang member.
ABC News confirmed with sources at the Homeland Security Department that Garcia was transporting illegals for a convicted human smuggler when police stopped Garcia in an SUV in 2022. Garcia admitted, police bodycam footage shows, that he was driving on a suspended license when troopers stopped him.
As well, Garcia “was validated as a member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) Gang,” documents from Prince George’s County cops say.
Last, Garcia’s wife filed multiple reports of domestic abuse to Prince George’s County police. USA Today published audio of her plaintive cry to a judge to get a protective order.
Summary: Garcia is an illegal alien, human smuggling suspect, MS-13 terror gang member, and credibly accused of beating the daylights out of his wife.
Democrats to the Rescue
No matter. Even as those facts surfaced one after another, pro-illegal-alien Democrats, led by far-left Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, trundled off to El Salvador to visit Garcia if not secure his release. El Salvador would not release him. Van Hollen met with the gang member, purportedly over margaritas, which Van Hollen denied.
Called before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recited the facts to far-left Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
“Abrego Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador, and should never have been in this country, and will not be coming back to this country,” Noem told Murphy:
There is no scenario where Abrego Garcia will be in the United States again. If he were to come back, we would immediately deport him again because he is a terrorist, he’s a human smuggler, and he is a wife-beater.
That doesn’t matter to Murphy or Van Hollen. As far as Democrats are concerned, Murphy says, illegal aliens “the people we care about most.” That apparently includes wife-beating terror gang members.
Poisoned Ivey
Thus comes Ivey. He traveled to El Salvador to visit Garcia at the Centro Industrial Penitentiary in Santa Ana, about 63 miles northwest of capital city San Salvador. The government transferred him there from the terrorist detention center.
On X, Ivey told the story about his junket.
Noting that Garcia was a “constituent,” Ivey complained that he contacted El Salvador’s ambassador to the United States, and made “formal requests” through the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador.
“But now they’re telling us we got to go all the way back to San Salvador to get a permit. That’s ridiculous!” Ivey fumed:
We ought to have a chance to come in and visit. They knew we were coming. They knew why we were coming. And they know we have the right to do this. So they need to just cut the crap.
Let us get in there and have a chance to see him and talk with him. You got his lawyer here. You got somebody from the unions here. Talk with them. Let us in. Stop playing games. Let us have a chance to talk with him.
Ivey did not explain why an American has a “right” to visit a Salvadoran terrorist in a Salvadoran prison.
Garcia’s Pad
As for Garcia’s new digs, NBC News reported that life there isn’t all so bad, relatively speaking.
“As opposed to tattooed gang members in brightly lit, crowded cells, the inmates at the Centro Industrial prison in Santa Ana wear yellow T-shirts and move more or less freely,” the network reported:
Some spend much of their time outdoors raising dairy cows and growing vegetables. Others work in factories making uniforms for the armed forces or desks for public schools.
The government calls them “trusted inmates”: They have exhibited good behavior and are in the final years of their sentences. And the prison categorically excludes anyone accused of belonging to a gang.
NBC did not explain why Garcia is imprisoned there. The far-left network did claim that Garcia’s incarceration there “contradicts a central claim made by both governments: that Abrego Garcia is a dangerous member of MS-13 and a terrorist.”
NBC, which did not see or interview Garcia, described the prison as his “last known” location.
