Column: The absurd persecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia


He does not have to worry about Kilmar Abrego García, the unfortunate face of the anti -immigrant crusade of President Trump, to be outraged by the twisted form of our government has treated him and, because of the way in which federal officials have personally attacked this 35 -year -old Salvadoran immigrant, husband of an American citizen and yes, the father of the three of Maryland.

They have already “accidentally” deported “Abrego García once, to the notorious prison of maximum security of El Salvador, without taking into account the very specific order of a judge that they do not eliminate it.

After the Supreme Court ruled that it had been illegally deported and press the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Abrego García de El Salvador, the federals brought him reluctantly to the United States, and then quickly reorganized him for allegedly participating in a conspiracy to end immigrants without funds throughout the country.

Now the federals threaten to deport Abrego García to Uganda if he does not declare himself guilty of human smuggling charges.

The smuggling charges against him come from a 2022 traffic stop in Putnam County, Tennessee. He was arrested for speeding and it was discovered that he was driving with an overdue license. Nine men were in their truck, fellow construction workers, he said, who was transporting between jobs. The government says it was a cover story, and that, in fact, Abrego García transported newly arrived immigrants who had illegally crossed the border, from Texas to Maryland. The soldiers let him go with a warning.

The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, called Abrego García “a foreign terrorist” who was “involved in trafficking in persons.” Which is, a great surprise, a shameless lie.

Smuggling is a different and much less serious crime than human trafficking. Human smuggling, according to the application of immigration and customs of the United States, implies the provision of a service to a client willing. Trafficking in persons implies exploiting people for forced labor or commercial sex. You know, like what President Trump's old friend Jeffrey Epstein was alleged, he had done to adolescents. It is the crime by which Epstein's girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, currently celebrates a 20 -year sentence in the Federal Prison.

On the contrary, Abrego García has no criminal record and so far he has not been accused of any crime. That has not prevented Trump administration officials from trying to make it the public enemy No. 1. On the other hand, it has become the exhibition A in their tireless crusade against immigrants.

They are stacking this man because it makes them look as vindictive and insensitive as they are.

The White House Cabinet Deputy Director Stephen Miller, practically foams in his mouth when he talks about Abrego García, calling him a “violent terrorist” and “a clear and present danger for the American people.”

Vice President JD Vance called him a “member of the MS-13 gang.” (He is not).

They have accused Abrego García of being part of MS-13 because when he was picked up by “loungeing” in a homeland homeland in 2019 (where he was looking for daytime work), he wore a Bulls Chicago hat, an alleged meaning of gang participation.

In his bond hearing, the judge granted Abrego García “retention of the state of elimination”, which meant that he could not be deported to El Salvador, due to his “very fundamental fear of the future persecution” of the gangs there. Numerous judicial documents say that he left El Salvador at age 16 to get away from the gangs that threatened his family and extorted his mother's business, forcing the family to move at least twice.

In March, as part of Trump's offensive against immigrants, Abrego García was arrested and arrested in Baltimore, launching the absurd melodrama in which he is now not starring involuntarily.

In April, after Abrego García was illegally deported to El Salvador, Trump showed a digitally altered photograph of what, according to him, was Abrego García with MS-13 tattooed in his knuckles.

The Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, who would prefer to shoot her pets to train them, called him “a violent criminal.”

“It does not belong here,” the Department of National Security tweeted. “It won't stay here. America is a safer nation without this MS-13 gangBanger in it. Good trip.”

On Wednesday, Abrego García asked a judge to grant him asylum, who, as reported by the New York Times, “opens a new legal way to remain in the United States.” It is very possible that it ends up being deported again, and has said that I would prefer to be sent to Costa Rica if it is. In a judicial presentation, he said that if they sent it to Uganda, the government there, without restrictions on the orders of any US judge, would send it back to El Salvador.

The jihad of the Trump administration against immigrants, particularly those with brown skin, is as non -American as disgusting. Although the president promised to deport violent criminals, it is clear that no immigrant in this country is safe from his racist anger.

Traitors attack the Capitol, brutally assault police officers, threaten to hang the vice president, destroy the halls of Congress and try to violently revoke the results of a free and fair election. They have received nothing but love and forgives from Trump.

But those who cross the border for a better and safer life? Those who come to this nation of immigrants to choose our crops, build our houses, clean our hotel rooms? They obtain anything more than the hate of the president.

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