The illegal immigrant MS-13 gangbanger, who Democrats like Chris Van Hollen have fallen in love with, was actually driving the vehicle of a convicted human smuggler when he was stopped in 2022 by the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
That’s right. Not just a member of MS-13 and an illegal immigrant with deportation orders, but also a human trafficker. Well done Democrats.
Here’s more from the New York Post:
Deported alleged MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driving a convicted human smuggler’s car when he was stopped by cops while transporting a group of men on a Tennessee highway in 2022, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed Wednesday.
Abrego Garcia, 29, was pulled over by a Tennessee state trooper in 2022 for speeding, but when the cop stumbled upon the Salvadoran illegal migrant with eight others and no luggage amid their days-long trip from Texas to Maryland, he suspected something was amiss, according to an internal memo obtained by The Post last week.
At the time, the alleged gangbanger — who was deported by the Trump administration last month — claimed that the packed SUV was owned by “his boss” at his construction job, who turned out to be Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes, an illegal migrant previously convicted of smuggling others into the US, Just The News first reported.
DHS confirmed the validity of the report to The Post on Wednesday.
The responding officer wrote that he suspected it was “a human trafficking incident” following the stop.
But officers let Abrego Garcia go with a citation for driving with an expired license.
Abrego Garcia told the responding officer he was driving the black 2001 Chevrolet Suburban to Temple Hills, Maryland, “to bring in people to perform construction work,” according to the previous memo.
Homeland Security officials found that the vehicle was owned by Hernandez Reyez, who they suspected had used the SUV for human trafficking or smuggling in separate cases, according to Just The News.
“Vehicle is used by HSI Baltimore target in human smuggling/trafficking operation. Vehicle makes trips to southern border to pick up non-citizens,” the record read, according to the outlet.
Hernandez Reyes pleaded guilty to smuggling and was sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2020 for smuggling other illegals from Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras, in a car he was driving through Mississippi.
Homeland Security officials reinstated his deportation order in March 2021 as the end of his sentence loomed.
Hernandez Reyes was stopped by cops in Jackson County, Mississippi, in 2019 while he was riding in the car with eight other illegal migrants, including three previously deported individuals from Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras, according to the Justice Department.
Hernandez Reyes, along with his brother-in-law who was behind the wheel, smuggled illegal migrants to Houston, Texas, to other states, according to the DOJ.
The group was charged with illegal reentry into the US.
The truth about all of this is that these Democrats who’ve been lamenting Abrego Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador don’t really give a flying crap about Garcia. They only care about what they can weaponize to try and use against Trump. That’s all this is about.