For the White House and the Republican Party, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the gift that keeps on giving.
The latest to surface on the deported Salvadoran illegal alien — credibly fingered as an MS-13 terror gang member — is the body-camera footage of his stop by Tennessee Highway Patrol officers. Garcia was driving an SUV with eight passengers, and the cops say he is a human trafficker.
As well, USA Today published audio of wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura’s plea to a judge for a protective order.
No wonder the White House says the Democrats and their far-left Mainstream Media Information Ministry have dug themselves into a very big hole.
The Video
Deported March 15, Garcia, 29, was hauling eight men, likely illegal aliens, through Tennessee to Maryland when the Highway Patrol stopped him for speeding.
As Fox News reported, a state trooper noted that the SUV appeared to have been altered so it could be packed to the headliner with illegals:
“How many rows have you got in here? Four seats? Four rows of seats?” a state trooper can be heard saying. “Did y’all put an extra one in? Huh? Did yall put another one in no? They come like this? I’ve never seen one with that many seats in it.”
“He’s hauling these people for money,” one state trooper said.
A source familiar with the situation told Fox News Digital that there was a conversation in the redacted portion of the video where state troopers discussed calling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The troopers called ICE, which didn’t come to pick up Abrego-Garcia.
The source added that when state troopers entered Abrego-Garcia’s name into the National Crime Information Center, a warning appeared that showed he was suspected of being a gang member or terrorist.
Garcia had $1,400 in cash, and confessed that he was driving on a suspended license. As well, Fox continued, he offered different accounts about his trip. The passengers did not have identification, and, significantly, there was no luggage.
“They don’t have any luggage in there, right? one patrolman said. “And if you get them out, they’re going have toothpaste and toothbrushes in their pocket. I guarantee it.”
As The New American reported last week, the automobile Garcia drove — which belonged to his “boss,” he told the cops — was owned by an illegal alien convicted of human trafficking.
Garcia became the latest cause célèbre for the Democrats when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” his return to the United States from El Salvador. The administration supposedly deported him by mistake. Democrats traveled to El Salvador to push the government to release him, but Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has refused.
“The hole that Democrats and the Fake News media dug themselves into by demanding the return of a wife-beating MS-13 terrorist illegal alien just keeps getting deeper,” a White House spokesman told Fox News.
More Wife-beating Evidence
The evidence of Garcia’s human trafficking went viral with the audio of wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura’s begging a judge to protect her from the illegal alien.
The audio is from a hearing in August 2020. As The New American reported yesterday, Fox News obtained a second petition for a protective order, in which Sura described Garcia’s savagely abusing her. He even said he could murder her and get away with it, she alleged.
The audio appears to summarize what Sura wrote in the petition.
Sura told the judge that she ducked such a hearing before because Garcia’s family “washed my brain” and convinced her not to appear because his father was ill. From there, she describes a violent, out-of-control thug.
“I have a lot of police reports,” she told the judge, and during the incident described in the written petition, she escaped to get outside the home and call police.
“They took a long time to get to the house,” she said:
It was probably like 20, 30 minutes. So I saw a neighbor walking his dog and I opened the door, and I was, like, “help,” and then, when [Garcia] heard me, like, he grabbed me … and he slapped me, and then the neighbor, like, he didn’t know what to do, he didn’t know what to react. I have pictures of the evidence, like all the bruises.… Even on Wednesday, he hit me, like, around, like, 3 in the morning, he would just wake up and, like, hit me. And then last Saturday … before I went to my daughter’s birthday party, he slapped me three times. And then last week, I did call the police. My sister called the police because he hit me in front of my sister.
In May 2021, another petition described Garcia as a crazed, violent maniac.
Sura, who raised a small fortune with a lachrymose appeal on GoFundMe, which describes Garcia as a 21st-century Ward Cleaver, said the violence, presumably including the murder threat, resulted from Garcia’s detention in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.
“Recently an audio clip of a civil court hearing related to the protection order I filed became public. I previously acknowledged the protection order and will again address a personal and painful part of mine and Kilmar’s life. Neither of us were in a good place at that time,” she told USA Today:
My husband was traumatized from the time he spent in ICE detention and we were in the throes of COVID. Like many couples, we were caring for our children with barely enough to get by. All of those factors contributed to the actions which caused me to seek the protective order.
That’s doubtful. And the father of Sura’s children, Edwin Trejo Ramos, filed for an emergency custody hearing in August 2018 because Sura, he alleged, “is dating a gang member.”
In confirmation-hearing testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Terrance Cole, nominee to head the Drug Enforcement Administration, confirmed that Garcia’s tattoos are, indeed, gang tattoos.
