When I look back at the events of the past week involving the deportation of suspected MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, I can’t help but notice how quickly Democrats rushed to make him the face of their opposition to Trump’s immigration policies. It makes me wonder: Was this whole thing a brilliantly executed trap that the Trump administration laid? The timing, the optics, and the reaction all seem too perfect to be accidental.
Over the past week, the Democrats’ latest immigration hero has proven to be exactly what the Trump administration has said he was all along: a violent criminal with gang ties. Suddenly, the façade of the innocent “Maryland father” or “Maryland man” went up in smoke. In short, the left's rush to champion Abrego Garcia has spectacularly backfired.
For days, the mainstream media portrayed Garcia as nothing more than a loving family man whom the Trump administration wrongly targeted. Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen even went to El Salvador to advocate for this supposed victim of immigration enforcement to be returned.
And the Trump administration couldn’t have played this any better. If I’m right, it held back damaging information about Garcia, letting Democrats and their media allies build up steam defending him. When the truth finally emerged, it was devastating.
Court documents revealed that Garcia's wife testified about his horrific domestic abuse. Garcia had been on law enforcement's radar since 2019, when Prince George's County Police identified him as an active MS-13 gang member. And then there's his 2022 human trafficking incident in Tennessee, where he was caught transporting seven individuals from Texas to Maryland. The FBI mysteriously instructed state police to release everyone involved.
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The media did nothing to help the Democrats here either. Sure, they pushed the “Maryland father” narrative, but they didn’t do the digging you’d expect from competent journalists to ensure that they weren’t barking up the wrong tree. Despite claims to the contrary, Garcia didn't need to be convicted of a crime to be deported; he was in the country illegally and had already been ordered removed. The Democrats' desperate attempts to paint him as a model community member show just how far they'll go to undermine Trump's immigration policies.
Obviously, the left's narrative about Garcia as some innocent victim of Trump's immigration policies has completely collapsed. This case perfectly illustrates the Democrats' willingness to defend literally anyone, even a wife-beating, human trafficking, gang member, just to oppose Trump's immigration enforcement.
The documentation is crystal clear: Garcia had an existing deportation order from 2019, faced domestic violence allegations, and was identified by law enforcement as an MS-13 member with the rank of "Chequeo" and the moniker "Chele."
So when you look at the big picture, it appears that the Trump administration's strategic handling of this case was brilliant. By allowing Democrats to fully commit to defending Garcia before releasing the damaging evidence, it exposed the left's complete disregard for public safety when it conflicts with its open-borders agenda.
This entire episode proves once again that Democrats will side with criminal aliens over the safety of American citizens every single time. For them, it’s instinct.
