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17 Apr 2025


NextImg:Trump Border Czar Calls Senator's Attempt To Visit Mistakenly Deported Man 'Disgusting'
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Border czar Tom Homan says it’s “disgusting” for Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to pursue a visit with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador due to what President Donald Trump’s own Justice Department called an “administrative error.”

Abrego Garcia was deported March 15 merely on suspicion of being an MS-13 gang member and has since been confined at a notorious Salvadoran prison. The Trump administration has been openly defying a Supreme Court order to “facilitate” the return of the father of three to the U.S.

Homan appeared Wednesday on Fox News to defend the administration, despite a federal court filing last month confirming the deportation was made in “error” — and attacked the Maryland senator for traveling to El Salvador to try to meet with Abrego Garcia, who had been living in his state.

“It’s just disgusting,” Homan said on “The Ingraham Angle.”

“I talked to an MS-13 expert today who also showed me pictures of his hand,” he told host Laura Ingraham. “He says absolutely the tattoo on one of his hands was absolutely an MS-13 gang tattoo. Nothing questionable about it.”

Despite Homan’s claim that an “expert” told him Abrego Garcia “absolutely” had an MS-13 tattoo, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis — who ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return to the U.S. — has condemned so-called evidence of his affiliation as lacking.

Xinis wrote in an April 6 court memorandum that it consists of “nothing more” than Abrego Garcia’s Chicago Bulls attire — and an “uncorroborated allegation from a confidential informant claiming he belonged to MS-13’s ‘Western’ clique in New York — a place he has never lived.”

The 29-year-old had been living in the U.S. since he was 16; a 2019 court order stated he could not be sent back to El Salvador due to credible fear of violent gang retribution there. Abrego Garcia has never been convicted of a crime in the U.S. or in El Salvador.

Border czar Tom Homan said he is baffled that people aren't taking the Justice Department at its word that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a public safety threat.
Border czar Tom Homan said he is baffled that people aren't taking the Justice Department at its word that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a public safety threat.
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Homan appeared outraged at those demanding due process for Abrego Garcia and other accused criminals.

“I can’t believe these people really believe what they’re saying,” Homan said Wednesday. “They got to be just pushing the narrative for political reasons. They can’t be that dumb to think that this person isn’t an MS-13 gang member and a public safety threat.”

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However, those allegations have not been proved.

“He is not just an illegal alien anymore,” Homan argued. “He is a designated terrorist. There is a different level of due process for terrorists. So I think we stand by our guns. I think we did the right thing. And I think the attorney general of the United States agrees.”

Van Hollen’s attempted welfare check on Abrego was denied Wednesday by El Salvador’s vice president, Félix Ulloa.