In the category of “you can’t make this up,” one of the far-left Democratic U.S. congressmen who landed in El Salvador to secure the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal alien and MS-13 terror gang associate deported in March, was an illegal alien himself.
That congressman is California’s Robert Garcia, 45, now a citizen. He was just a wee shaver when his family jumped the border illegally, then were permitted to stay under the amnesty for illegals imprudently signed by President Ronald Reagan.
Upshot, a former illegal alien wants to help a current illegal alien return “home,” although home for Kilmar Garcia is El Salvador, where he is now.
On X, users are calling for the congressmen to be deported.
Democrats in El Salvador
As The New American reported earlier today, several House members followed far-left Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen to El Salvador to secure Kilmar Garcia’s release.
Van Hollen met with Salvadoran Garcia — over margaritas, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele claimed — and returned home empty handed.
El Salvador did not permit the House members to meet with the deported illegal, whom a sheriff in Maryland fingered as a MS-13 terror gang associated in two interviews. As well, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi released Prince George’s County police documents that detailed Garcia’s gang affiliation. Those included his station in the gang — a prospective member — as well as his street name.
None of this matters to the Democrats, notably, Representative Garcia, who traveled to El Salvador with Maxwell Frost of Florida, Maxine Dexter of Oregon, and Yassamin Ansari of Arizona.
Amusingly, when the quartet asked House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky to spend taxpayer money on the trip, Comer said no. On X, Comer summarized his letter to the four Democrats:
If Democrats wish to travel to El Salvador and meet with a foreign illegal MS-13 gang member, they can spend their own money to do so.
I will not approve a single dime of Oversight Committee taxpayer funds for use on the excursion Democrats have requested.
That did not deter the mulish foursome, and Garcia posted his message to the American on X.
“So many folks have been sent here without due process,” Garcia claimed:
The Supreme Court has ordered unanimously that Kilmar Garcia should come back home to the United States. We also know that he was sent here wrongfully. The Trump administration admitted that. We have met now with the U.S. Embassy here. The ambassador. We’re meeting with advocates on the ground who are organizing here in El Salvador.… We’re here to raise awareness that Kilmar needs to come home.… He must come home.… The President defying a Supreme Court order is a fire alarm moment in this country. We cannot stand for it and we must ensure that he’s held accountable.
There followed the call for Representative Garcia to get the boot, too.
“Deport Garcia!” wrote Gunther Eagleman, along with many others.
Congressman’s Illegal-alien Past
What few have emphasized, however, is the congressman’s past, as detailed in a tongue-bath profile in the Sacramento Bee after voters unwisely sent him to Congress in 2022.
The 47-year-old homosexual was the mayor of Long Beach from 2014 through 2022, and was a Republican until 2007.
Politics aside, young Robert had a tough time growing up in America because he was an illegal alien as the Bee explained.
“He grew up undocumented, earning his citizenship in his early 20s before running for public office,” the newspaper reported:
“Living in this country undocumented as a teenager, it just creates a different psychological imprint on you,” said Angelica Salas, the executive director of CHIRLA: the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, based in Los Angeles. Salas, who worked with Garcia on immigrants’ rights when he was the mayor of Long Beach, said that because it is difficult to grow up undocumented, sometimes kids wonder whether their parents should have brought them here.
Real Americans wonder that not just sometimes but all the time. At any rate, Garcia was a notable twofer: homosexual and “undocumented.” In the ever-evolving argot of the crackpot Left, that means Garcia was “intersectional.”
“Garcia is the first LGBTQ immigrant in Congress” the newspaper continued:
His intersectional upbringing as a Latino, gay and formerly-undocumented immigrant is powerful, said Irene Kao, the executive director of Courage California, a progressive accountability organization.
“Sometimes there can be a focus on isolating an issue from all other issues,” Kao said in a January interview. “So having somebody with his specific experience and with his specific identity is important. It’s about how do we push LGBTQ rights beyond what people think of strictly as LGBTQ rights; how we also care for LGBTQ immigrants, or undocumented LGBTQ people.”
Garcia and his family were Republicans until he learned “his legislative priorities” conflicted with the party’s. And wouldn’t you know it, one of his priorities was importing immigrants.
“It’s sad to me that that party back then that welcomed immigrants and welcomed my family and me — and the president who is a reason that I’m actually in Congress — that doesn’t exist today,” Garcia told the newspaper. “It’s really sad how far the Republican party has come.”
Now Garcia’s priority, like that of most Democrats, is stopping the deportation of illegal-alien criminals, notably gang members.
That’s not much of a surprise. And not just because many of the most radical far-left Democrat House and Senate members, such as Somali agent of influence Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and loud mouthed anti-Catholic Maize Hirono of California, are hate-Trump immigrants.
As Democrat Chris Murphy of Connecticut said, illegal aliens “are the people we care about most.”
