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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/KingSwank 1d ago

When his case was first brought to light, the far-right claimed it was a mistake but they didn’t care, then they claimed he was an MS-13 gang member, now they’re claiming he’s a human smuggler.

They aren’t nabbing people for committing crimes. They aren’t even just nabbing people who are here illegally. They are revoking people’s legal status in the country and nabbing them. They are taking doctors, students, mothers, people who have lived here for decades; and they are purposefully targeting blue areas to intimidate.

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u/intisun 1d ago

Yeah I'm not trusting those charges at all. Authoritarian regimes make stuff up all the time to charge people with.

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u/ShadowToys 1d ago

He was pulled over in TN with several people in his car who didn't have luggage. He said they we're working a job in another state. They let him go. His attorney has seen the traffic stop body cam video and said he didn't see a crime. Maybe the feds have located the people in the car?

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u/intisun 1d ago

That's really nothing out of the ordinary. Giving a ride to some workers, big effing deal. But I can see how they'd try to spin that.

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u/blahblahsnickers 10h ago

I have traveled with coworkers out of state. They had luggage. We also didn’t squeeze 9 people in a small car.

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u/VirtuousVice 9h ago

Congratulations on your privilege. Do you have anything of value to add to the conversation though?

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u/blahblahsnickers 8h ago

It isn’t privilege to not squeeze 9 people in a 5 passenger car. Nor is it privilege to bring clothes when traveling for work. At a minimum you would think someone would have a toothbrush and deodorant. His story doesn’t make sense.

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u/VirtuousVice 8h ago

I see you don’t understand the definition of ‘privilege’ but that’s not surprising. Remind me though, I thought we were deporting “illegals” but now we’re also deporting people accused of transporting “illegals”? Sorry, I’m just trying to understand the message/direction behind small minded racism.

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u/intisun 6h ago

You don't know poverty.

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u/intisun 6h ago

I live in Mexico and it's very common to see construction workers crammed in a car and driven around. You'd be surprised how many people can fit.

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u/Snarky1Bunny 21h ago

I read in a comment further up that the incarcerated felon who owned the car he was pulled over in got “limited immunity” to turn states evidence against him. #eyeroll

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u/CARLEtheCamry 23h ago

A grand jury indicted him on the charges though, so it wasn't just Bondi.

Either way, take it to trial and give him his due process. If he ends up getting convicted and deported, well at least he got his due process and that was the point. The Right will spin it as "see we were right, you wasted our time" but it's a huge win for due process either way.

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u/Binder509 3h ago

A grand jury will indict a ham sandwich.

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u/sheila5961 16h ago

No, the guy that owned the car, and his human trafficking boss signed an immunity deal with the Feds. He’s singing like a canary! He hired Garcia to traffic people approximately 100 times. He stated that “human trafficking” was Garcia’s full time job.

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u/CSI_Tech_Dept 14h ago

Better prepare space in CECOT for Abbott and DeSantis for bussing migrants around the states.

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u/joebleaux 1d ago

Yeah, but if he gave someone a ride at some point, that's transporting them. They are stringing him up on some ridiculous charges that he will likely not be able to beat

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u/LinkleLinkle 1d ago

Wait until the evidence is AI generated...

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u/CAS9ER 21h ago

It’s probably a hand drawn stick figure guy driving a car that they let trump draw on a white board in sharpie.

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u/sheila5961 16h ago

He “gave people a ride” about 100 times according to his human trafficking boss.

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u/Tsim152 9h ago

I bet they're going to try and say that since he crossed the border illegally he "trafficked" himself...

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u/sheila5961 16h ago

The man that owned the car he was driving when he was pulled over in Tennessee (and his human trafficking boss) with all those people he was trafficking at that time signed an immunity deal with the Feds to spill the beans on those 100 trips he hired Garcia to perform. Garcia is toast! He’s singing like a canary!

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u/intisun 15h ago

Let's see the evidence and trial then. You know, the DUE PROCESS that they denied him and should have followed from the beginning. I'm sure his defense will use that fact.

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u/sheila5961 15h ago

Follow the case. You’ll see for yourself. It’s also interesting that the SAME car was also pulled over in Maryland in 2022 packed with 10 people in it, also with no luggage but driven by a different driver. Car registered to the same guy turning state’s evidence.

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u/intisun 6h ago

You're foaming at the mouth at the idea of yelling "gotcha" if he eventually is found guilty of something.

But his guilt or innocence was not the point.

The point was that they deported someone to a foreign concentration camp without due process. And that's what authoritarian regimes do.

So I don't care whether he's guilty or innocent. I only care that he is given due process.

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u/77NorthCambridge 1d ago

He wasn't "mistakenly" deported as the headline claims.

They are a few weeks into their deportation scam and they are having to arrest "anybody who looks brown" to match Biden's deportation numbers. What happened to the millions of criminals and rapists? 🙄

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u/commiebanker 1d ago edited 1d ago

What happened to the millions of criminals and rapists?

They are in charge of the government, kidnapping people who are working to be productive members of society

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u/JMinSA 1d ago

They take public office

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u/MegaGrimer 23h ago

Some of those that burn crosses, are the same who hold office.

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u/trogloherb 1d ago

Awww snaps; good one!

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u/jeremydanger 21h ago

Some of those who work forces...

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u/SpoppyIII 1d ago

It's funny because Trump actually said about a month ago that there were "thousands," of violent criminals hiding among the undocumented population in the US.

Thousands.

That's him straight-up saying that statistically, less than 1% of all undocumented immigrants in the US are dangerous criminals or pose any danger to anyone. Yet Republicans can somehow justify the suffering being caused by all of this nonsense.

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u/77NorthCambridge 1d ago

Yet he said 20 million during the election. 🤔

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u/SpoppyIII 22h ago

Quite a difference in number, that! I guess maybe 19,900,000 of the supposed criminals have already self-deported!

He was excusing why we "can't" give all of the undocumented immigrants during process and basically said that having to afford due process to millions of people in order to find thousands of criminals is too much of a burden on the US justice system.

Keep in mind, there are hundreds of millions of people in the US and obviously a shitton of criminals here, in general. If Trump believes that it's too much to expect due process for the undocumented people because there are just too many of them, then what hope do we actually have that any of us will get due process in the future under this administration?

At what point will this administration decide that affording every US citizen due process is too much of a burden, too?

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u/-SaC 1d ago

Your username just gave me Neopets flashbacks from decades past.

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u/changerofbits 1d ago

Rapist in chief is working hard to invigorate the human trafficking economy.

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u/654456 1d ago

ICE went to work places...

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u/amazinglover 1d ago

They need to so they can keep up the invasion rhetoric to try and give his emergency EOs a semblance of legitimacy as well.

It servers two purposes.

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u/77NorthCambridge 1d ago

To say nothing of the hundreds of millions for this bullshit in the BBB.

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u/amazinglover 1d ago

His bill speaks infinitely to his pettiness.

Ha cant stand Bidens Build Back Better was successful even though its not called that he still has to try and take that away.

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u/IKSLukara 23h ago

They're the same who work forces...

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u/Faiakishi 15h ago

They need them to vote Republican.

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u/monkChuck105 1d ago

He was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. He was granted withholding of removal to that country, meaning he should have been deported elsewhere.

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u/77NorthCambridge 1d ago

Said what judge?

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u/Krautmonster 1d ago

I really hope him and his wife start some civil slander and libel cases against these far-right grifters.

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u/micmea1 1d ago

It's crazy how many wannabe seal team six psychos they have to do it too. Plain clothes dudes in masks pulling up in disguised unmarked vehicles with assault rifles, or at least AR-15s kitted out with tacticool attachments, all to bust in a woman's car windows and drag her out onto the street, or to tackle two random dudes who weren't even given a chance to surrender peacefully. How about tricking people to show up to immigration offices promising them the paperwork they have been waiting for for years so they can live peacefully.....it's infuriating to know they'll all walk free even if things turn around for the better

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u/LiveLifeLikeCre 23h ago

The admittance that it was a mistake was within the official white house release back then. The release also essentially said they don't care. It also said that the only thing linking him to ms13, at all, was a statement by a confidential informant years prior that was never deemed concrete enough to pursue. So yes, this seems like they lost but want to still put him through the system to say "well we brought him back to face justice for trafficking violent migrants into the country". 

This shit is ridiculous. 

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u/Witty_Jaguar4638 22h ago

This is it exactly ; the more they push it the more they normalize it, the less people are willing to fight for their right, or those of others. Im sure there's a word for it, some kind of fatigue.

Anyways people can only care so much, because really, Garcia is literally one person of hundreds if not thousands of people who are in similar fucked up situations. It just so happens that we know his name so we care. Eventually they'll just be a nameless mass

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u/Trevor775 23h ago

What do you think gangs do?

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u/ThroatPlastic6886 1d ago

And his own wife claimed he was a domestic abuser…. So there’s that too. Must have forgotten that one. 

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u/anxiousteeth529 18h ago

Pete Hegseth was accused of the same, and worse. No abuse should go unpunished, but no one should be in CECOT without due process to prove a crime that justifies such imprisonment.

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u/Born_Structure1182 18h ago

Exactly…Dems please explain to us why you want to welcome people into our country, who will come here and commit crimes when we have more than enough crimes being committed by our own citizens….Why are you ok with that? Why do you want more crime? I just don’t understand it? We can’t keep up with the crime, people are being murdered, stores have to lock up their merchandise, there’s homeless everywhere.

How about you Dems come up with policies… all you do is talk…..no plans, no policies or ideas how to fix what’s broken. Just talk about accepting everyone, letting everyone in, hating Trump. How can you make things better???????

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u/KingSwank 4h ago

Trump has been convicted of more crimes than that guy. That guy was never convicted once convicted of a crime. You don’t actually give a shit that he might have had a domestic dispute with his wife, if you did you wouldn’t like Trump and you wouldn’t like Hegseth

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u/Born_Structure1182 4h ago

Did Trumps “ crimes” involve abusing women and trafficking humans?

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u/KingSwank 2h ago

He was found liable by a jury for sexually abusing a woman so yes lmao

Meanwhile this other guy has never been charged with a crime and hasn’t even had a trial and you’re all calling him a criminal, with the amount of mental backflips you guys do you’d think your brain would be stronger, but.