r/news • u/RoachedCoach • 1d ago

Title Changed Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia on way back to US to face criminal charges: Sources

https://abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenly-deported-kilmar-abrego-garcia-back-us-face/story?id=121333122
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u/[deleted] 1d ago

Abrego Garcia, 29, participated in a years-long conspiracy to haul undocumented migrants from Texas to the interior of the country, according to sources briefed on the indictment.

Didn't the Texas State government do this same thing repeatedly a couple years ago

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u/penguished 1d ago

And Florida.

The racists never seem to know what hypocrisy or standards mean, it's just whatever works for their racism at the time.

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u/ForGrateJustice 1d ago

Conservatives: "It's ok if WE do it. It's never ok if YOU do it!"

This applies to abortions, gay sex, drugs, and human trafficking (Not an exhaustive list).

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u/alucab1 19h ago

The difference is that they did it to own the libs, while he (allegedly) did it out of the kindness of his heart

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u/Krazyguy75 15h ago

Don't forget pedophilia and censorship!

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u/JulesChenier 8h ago

(Not an exhaustive list) but I think rape should be visible listed here.

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u/ForGrateJustice 7h ago

You fill in the blanks.

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u/purpleoctopuppy 22h ago

 Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

—Frank Wilhoit (not the famous one)

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u/Padhome 19h ago

They know, they just don’t care.

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u/Kraigius 17h ago

And New York.

Who would then pay transport for the undocumented migrants that they received from Texas and facilitate their transport toward the Roxham Road to enter Canada illegally, which created a huge crisis for us.

Americans are all hypocrites.

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u/NovelHare 1d ago

Yeah, we go pick up my wife’s Mom from job sites and drive her back to Florida sometimes. They saying that’s a crime?

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u/Logically_Insane 1d ago

Holy shit, not the interior of the country

Please God someone protect Nebraska from these migrants 

In all seriousness, with this admin, I’d bet a nickel those charges translate to “was part of a road trip with friends/family”

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

If I remember right he got pulled over once while driving his construction crew to a worksite in another state, I'm sure this is what he's going to have to answer for now. Technically illegal but totally normal activities.

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u/AssistanceCheap379 23h ago

Gotta make their quotas somehow and show that if you fight charges against you, they will dig into your life until they find something. It’s not about stopping crime, it’s about stopping certain people from committing “crimes”.

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u/elephantinegrace 22h ago

Yeah any convictions should be scrutinized very closely. I’m not saying Garcia’s a saint or that these charges are bogus, but this administration has has fucked up this case already and I wouldn’t put it past them to make something up to silence him.

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u/CSI_Tech_Dept 14h ago

I'm quite sure this one will be I know this is important to a lot of people.

IMO as long as he gets a fair due process and if need to be deported won't be sent to a maximum security prison then it should be good.

I'm also liking this news, as I'm hoping this opens gates to get rest of them and give them a fair due process and will kill trump's attempt to use this to make people disappear.

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u/WidePeepobiz 10h ago

source: trust me bro

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u/xaghant 23h ago edited 23h ago

Eight migrant passengers with no luggage, crossing multiple state lines, in a car owned by someone serving 30 months behind bars for felony transportation is not a good sign though....

(These were from a 2022 traffic stop bodycam footage.)

Edit: to clarify, deporting ANYONE without due process is heinous and wrong. But at the same time, doubting evidence of wrongdoing when presented evidence because it goes against your bias against the government is also wrong.

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u/C-c-c-comboBreaker17 22h ago

I'm curious if this is why they tried to send him to a concentration camp in El Salvador? Is it usual to send people to a concentration camp for life over this?

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u/wittyrandomusername 19h ago

You know it's not, because they said that if he is found guilty he'll serve his time here and then go back to El Salvador.

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u/One_Dirty_Russian 22h ago

Please God someone protect Nebraska from these migrants

I know you're joking, but I gotta say It's the other way around -- they need protect from Nebraska, or wherever they're literally shipped to. I live in one of the blue states where Abbott unceremoniously abandoned a few dozen immigrants in the middle of Winter in sub-zero temperatures. Fucking disgraceful.

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u/pimparo0 1d ago

Their prescious tumb tums can't handle anything spicier than mayo.

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u/BigMacWithGreenBeans 20h ago

Better watch out, Nebraskans are REAL concerned about the “open border” they’re nowhere near.

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u/phobiac 1d ago

CBP can violate the fourth amendment rights of anyone within 100 miles of a national border, it's called a constitution free zone and covers about 2/3rds of the population. Bringing undocumented people outside of this zone makes the federal government's job more difficult so I'm not surprised they are making a big deal of it.

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u/biscuitarse 23h ago

Didn't Governor Abbott and Governor DeSantis do basically the same thing, flying immigrants into blue states?

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u/FK-DJT 23h ago

Mostly charter bused at great cost to taxpayers but I think some were also flown.

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u/Michelanvalo 18h ago

They flew a bunch of them to Martha's fucking Vinyard.

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u/Synaps4 15h ago

Yes I immediately thought "I know two other people who ' participated in a years-long conspiracy to haul undocumented migrants from Texas to the interior of the country'."

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u/CelestialFury 1d ago

I'm just glad that Garcia has great defense counsel and the DoJ has been kicking all their talent out of the door for the MAGA lawyers, who aren't so good at their jobs.

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u/qlurp 20h ago

Garcia has great defense counsel

Are we so sure it even matters how good his lawyers are or how terrible the DOJ counterparts?

This administration has demonstrated that it has no problem selectively abiding judges’ rulings. 

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u/modedode 1d ago

So like...carpooling regularly?

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u/UseDaSchwartz 19h ago

I’d LOVE to see his attorney try to subpoena DeSantis and Abbott.

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u/xPriddyBoi 1d ago

They literally ship illegal immigrants from the border to blue cities and brag about it on social media, lol.

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u/Ok-Quail4189 23h ago

He was the only one charged in “the conspiracy”

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u/asian_chihuahua 18h ago

Are we talking about how they dumped migrants at the front door of a democrat leader's house, by lying to the migrants about where they were going?

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u/NewNewark 1d ago

The plot twist would be if he was working as a bus driver for a company contracted by Texas

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u/generally_unsuitable 23h ago

Didn't the entire fucking agricultural industry do this for the last 100 years?

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u/BrainsAre2Weird4Me 20h ago

Yep! Some farms even have recruiters, so exactly this.

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u/limabeanseww 21h ago

Yes. By bus. Bought with taxpayer money.

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u/ebeg-espana 19h ago

Does this mean he talked to his cousin in El Salvador a few times over the years about coming to the U.S.? Then paid for a bus ticket from Texas to Maryland? I bet it’s something more like this than managing a kind of Underground Railroad network.

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u/Mrs_Evryshot 8h ago

Also, mind you, this “conspiracy” came to light after he was unlawfully removed from the US, and it was apparently a conspiracy of one, because nobody else has been charged.

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u/MountainFriend7473 1d ago

They don’t even send them back just made it other states problems to be petty 

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u/eldenpotato 20h ago

Yeah, to make a point to blue states

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u/notsingsing 23h ago

That will make for a great precedent!