A federal immigration judge has denied Salvadoran illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s request not to be deported.
Indicted for trafficking illegal aliens into the United States, Garcia had argued that the Trump administration might send him to Uganda, which Regional Deputy Chief Immigration Judge Philip Taylor denied.
An MS-13 gang member and wife beater, Garcia has been fighting to remain in the United States since his deportation in March, his June return to face the trafficking charges, and then the administration’s plans to pack him off to Uganda.
He’s the poster boy for hate-Trump Democrats and the equally hate-Trump media, which have repeatedly and falsely called him a mere “Maryland husband father.”
After Garcia was deported, far-left Democrats took up his cause. They ignored his criminal record, including beating his wife and his “validated” membership in MS-13.
In 2022, Tennessee Highway Patrol officers stopped him with a carload of illegals and suspected him of smuggling them. The Biden administration ordered him to be released. In June, he was returned to the United States to answer the trafficking allegations.
“Garcia and others … conspired to bring undocumented aliens to the United States from countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador, and elsewhere, ultimately passing through Mexico before crossing into Texas,” a federal grand jury’s indictment alleges.
Significantly, the jury alleges that Garcia “used his status in MS-13 to further his criminal activity.” He and his conspirators “transported thousands” of illegal aliens, “many of whom were MS-13 members and associates.”
Garcia and his co-conspirators teamed up with “transnational criminal organizations in Mexico” to import the illegals, the indictment continues. They usually picked up the illegals and then delivered them elsewhere. They also unlawfully transported firearms purchased in Texas for resale in Maryland.
The two-count indictment charges Garcia with transporting illegals and conspiracy to transport them, violations of 8 U.S. Code 1324 — bringing in and harboring illegals.
As well, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi alleged, Garcia solicited nude photos of a minor and participated in the murder of a rival gang member’s mother.
In August, when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that Garcia would fly the friendly skies for the hospitable climes of Uganda, far-left Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court in Maryland — appointed by President Barack Hussein Obama — blocked the deportation until he received a “credible fear” hearing.
Garcia’s attorneys filed an emergency appeal with the immigration court. Philip Taylor, the immigration judge, dismissed it, The Washington Post reported:
In his ruling, Taylor wrote that Abrego “has not submitted evidence to show that the Department has presented him with a formal notice of removal or any other document showing its intent to remove him to Uganda.”
He said a government lawyer said it “may remove him to Uganda,” and not necessarily that it would. Officials have also said they could remove him to Eswatini or Costa Rica.
Garcia has a month to appeal, and can take his case to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, the newspaper reported.
Taylor also ruled that Garcia’s appeal was “untimely,” the New York Post reported, because it “was filed close to six years after initial litigation over Abrego Garcia’s illegal entry into the US — well past the required 90-day deadline.”
“With today’s ruling, Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s final order of removal stands,” the DHS X feed said:
This MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, domestic abuser, and child predator will never be loose on American streets.
His lawyers tried to fight his removal from the U.S. but one thing is certain, this Salvadoran man is not going to be able to remain in our country. He will never be allowed to prey on innocent Americans again.
Never forget the Democrats [who] flew to a foreign land on the US taxpayer’s dime to break bread with this terrorist gang member and visit him in prison. While they continue to fight for criminal illegal aliens, we will continue to put the safety of the American people FIRST.
Ever since Garcia was rightly jettisoned to El Salvador, far-left Democrats and their Media Megaphone have blared the falsehood that he was “wrongly deported.” Even the wife-beating allegations — his wife filed two domestic abuse reports — did not dissuade them.
During a White House powwow between U.S. President Donald Trump and Salvadoran counterpart Nayib Bukele in April, Trump aide Stephen Miller explained why that narrative is false.
Garcia was not “mistakenly sent to El Salvador,” because he had a final order of removal, Miller said:
These are things that no one disputes. Where is he from? El Salvador. Where is he a resident and citizen of? El Salvador. Is he here illegally? Yes. Does he have a deportation order? Yes.
A DOJ lawyer who has since been relieved of duty, a saboteur, a Democrat, put into a filing, incorrectly, that this was a mistaken removal. It was not! This was the right person sent to the right place.
Now some have said, “Well, but he had a thing called a ‘withholding order.'” A withholding order means you’ve been ordered deported, but an immigration judge is saying you cannot go back to a particular country. Here’s the thing: If you are a member of a foreign terrorist organization, you cannot have a withholding order.
Since he’s in MS-13, there is no withholding order.
During that same meeting, much to the frustration of the media, Bukele explained that he would not return “terrorist” Garcia to the United States because he did not have the power to do so.
In June, again, Garcia was returned to the country under a U.S. arrest warrant to face the trafficking charges.