To hear that officials in Donald Trump’s administration tell it is a Salvadoran father in Maryland who acknowledged that they were mistakenly deported to a brutal prison in his homeland, “involved in human trafficking.”
But government lawyers have not yet raised such claims in court, and the allegations seem to be in public for the first time during a press conference in the White House.
Administration officials claim to have reviewed intelligence that links Kilmar Abrego Garcia to human and labor links, denying his attorneys and family.
Officials also refused to share any of the reports or any other evidence that supported their claims.
“We are not going to distribute our national security documents every time a terrorist denies being a terrorist,” Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Homeland Security, told ABC News on April 15. “It would be insane.”
A spokesman for the Homeland Security spokesman was asked for a momentum of such evidence The independent to McLaughlin’s comments on Fox News on April 4.
“The individual concerned is a member of the cruel MS-13 gang,” she said. ‘We have intelligence reports that he is involved in human trafficking. Whether he is in El Salvador or a detention facility in the US, he will be locked up and some of America’s streets. MS-13 gang members killed, raped and killed.
The only mention of the allegations of human trafficking against Abrego Garcia in court documents comes from his own lawyer, which remarks that “although the White House has accused the plaintiff of involvement in human trafficking, [the government’s] The submission of the court leaves such a scandalous accusation. “
On April 15, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called Abrego Garcia ‘a foreign terrorist’ and an ‘MS-13 gang member’ who ‘trafficked’.
The allegation was raised by Leavitt two weeks before.
On April 1, after government attorneys acknowledged that Abrego Garcia’s removal was due to an ‘administrative error’, Leavitt justified the Trump administration’s refusal to get him back, claiming that he was ‘involved in human trafficking’ and a ‘leader’ of MS-13.
“The error you refer to was based on a mental error, it was an administrative error. The administration holds the view that this individual who was deported to El Salvador and would not return to our country was a member of the cruel and evil MS-13 gang, “she said.
“We also have credible intelligence that proves that this individual was involved in human trafficking,” she added. “This individual was a member, actually a leader, of the cruel MS-13 gang, who named this president as a foreign terrorist organization.”
None of these allegations were raised in court.
Nevertheless, Kristi Name, Secretary of Home Security, told Fox News on April 14 that Abrego Garcia ‘has’ trading in his background’ and is a ‘very dangerous person’.
“The media would like you to believe that it is a media love, that he is just a father in Maryland,” McLaughlin said The Will Cain Show On Fox News the same day. “Osama bin Laden was also a father, and yet he wasn’t a good guy, and they are actually both terrorists.”
“It’s pretty crazy that you are so worried about this gang member and not his victims,” McLaughlin told ABC News a day later.
“He is a public security threat, he is a gang member, and he is a designated terrorist,” Trump’s border Tom Homan told Fox News.
Leavitt also mocked reporters at the White House for what she called “despicable” and “intoxicating” coverage of refusing the administration to return him from a prison where he faces the prospect of indefinite detention.
“You would think that we had deported a candidate for Father of the Year,” she said.
Abrego Garcia, an apprentice in Maryland, had just fetched his five -year -old autistic son from his grandmother’s house when he was stopped by federal agents. They then told his wife that she had ten minutes to pick him up before being transferred to child protection services, according to the court records.
He also helps to raise two other children from a previous relationship.
Abrego Garcia entered the United States illegally when he was 16 years old, but in 2019 a judge granted a withholding of the country removed from the country for the humanitarian reasons. On March 15, he was placed on a plane to El Salvador’s terrorism incision, or Cecot, described by human rights groups as a ‘tropical gulag’.
The White House and the government attorneys repeatedly acknowledged that his removal was due to an ‘administrative error’. But the administration refused to obtain his return and were rather fighting in court to continue his imprisonment as a member of a ‘foreign terrorist organization’, which, according to the administration officials, argued that any court order against his removal.
Rather than trying to correct the permitted wrong, administrative officials have for the first time described him as a ‘verified’ and ‘ranking’ ‘leader’ of MS-13 and thus a ‘foreign terrorist’ who claims the administration, the administration can be summarily deported.
The allegations raised recently appeared to be from his arrest in 2019 with three other immigrants outside a home depot.
After his arrest, local police officers asked if he was a gang member and for information about other gang members, according to court documents. He repeatedly explained that he had no information to give because he knew nothing.
Immigration and Customs Having Officers then detained him and brought proceedings against him under the sole charge of a ‘stranger present in the United States without arriving in the United States at any time or another, or indicated by the attorney general.’
After one month in custody, Ice claimed to be a ‘verified’ active gang member based on a local police report.
The officer who formally testified to Abrego Garcia’s alleged gang affiliations was suspended from the power shortly after he arrested him. He was accused of providing confidential information about an ongoing police investigation to a sex worker he had paid for sex a year earlier.
Ice increases appear to come from two documents at the time, one of which is based on information in the other. ICE’s form of ‘record of deportable/inadmissible stranger’ contains information from a report by Prince George Police Police. No documents are set up in the latest efforts by the administration to remove him.
A Judge of Immigrations noted that the documents were contrary to each other – one said they were in connection with a murder investigation, while the other said he was arrested because he was arrested outside a home depot.
At the time, Abrego Garcia’s lawyer objected to the inclusion of the materials and tried to investigate the detective whose accusations undermined the allegations. The Judge of the Immigration Court eventually determined that the documents were “sufficient” to refuse him bail.
But “The only reason to believe that the plaintiff was Abrego Garcia was a gang member was that he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a cape; and that a confidential informant advised that he was an active MS-13 member with the Westerns click,” according to Abrego Garcia’s lawyer.
However, the “Westerns” click is in Brentwood, Long Island, in New York, where Abrego Garcia has never lived.
Abrego Garcia refused bail, and remained in custody and applied asylum to prevent him from being removed to El Salvador, where he feared by a gang that threatened and threatened him and his family.
A judge granted his request “withholding of removal” based on his ‘well -established’ fear of prosecution. The government did not appeal.
He has since been expected to enter ICE agents regularly as a condition for his release. According to court documents, his most recent arrival was in January.
