Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has referred to as on “People of conscience” to face in opposition to the deportation of MS-13 gang member and unlawful alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Abrego Garcia, of El Salvador, was deported on March 15, 2025, to his dwelling nation’s Terrorism Confinement Middle (CECOT). He had been illegally residing in Maryland for almost 15 years.
In Could 2021, Abrego Garcia’s spouse, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, was granted a short lived protecting order in opposition to him after she alleged he was subjecting her to home violence — together with beating, scratching, and punching her.
On Thursday, Clinton posted her assist for the alleged wife-beater on the social media platform X.
Earlier than the election, I warned that there is no such thing as a protected haven below authoritarianism.
If they’ll ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a international jail—accused of no crime, with no trial—they’ll do it to anybody.
People of conscience should stand in opposition to this now.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 16, 2025
“Earlier than the election, I warned that there is no such thing as a protected haven below authoritarianism,” Clinton wrote. “If they’ll ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a international jail—accused of no crime, with no trial—they’ll do it to anybody.”
“People of conscience should stand in opposition to this now,” Clinton continued.
The left has been arguing that there’s not sufficient proof that Abrego Garcia was a member of the infamous violent gang.
Nevertheless, regardless of claims that he’s merely a innocent household man, Abrego Garcia’s alleged ties to MS-13 are usually not mere hypothesis.
In March 2019, Prince George’s County Police detained him throughout a loitering incident at a Dwelling Depot, the place he was within the firm of two confirmed MS-13 members. In the course of the investigation, Abrego Garcia was discovered to be a “Chequeo” (a rating member) in MS-13, working below the moniker “Chele.” He was additionally carrying a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie with imagery tied to gang tradition.
The Division of Homeland Safety labeled Abrego Garcia a “verified” MS-13 member in 2019.
MS-13 was designated as a international terrorist group by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in 2025.
Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi has made it clear that Abrego Garcia is “not coming again to our nation.”
“He’s an unlawful alien who has been residing illegally in our nation from El Salvador. ICE testified, and an immigration choose dominated, he was a member of MS-13. An appellate choose dominated he was a member of MS-13. Onerous cease,” Bondi mentioned throughout a press convention on Wednesday. “He shouldn’t be in our nation.”
“He was deported. They wanted one further step in paperwork, however now, MS-13 is characterised as they need to be as an FTO, as a international terrorist group,” the legal professional normal mentioned. “He would have come again, had one additional step of paperwork and gone again once more.”
Bondi added, “he’s from El Salvador. He’s in El Salvador, and that’s the place the president plans on conserving him.”
