The Strange Case of Abrego Garcia
19th April 2025
Democrats do many things that I don’t understand, but their enthusiastic embrace of El Salvadoran Abrego Garcia, a member of the brutal gang MS-13, is bizarre even for them. No one disputes that Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador. No one disputes that he was in the U.S. illegally. Therefore–it follows–he should be deported to his home country. In 2019, that deportation was temporarily held up by an immigration judge who thought that it would be too dangerous to deport Garcia to El Salvador, because he could be threatened by a rival gang. That is not, to put it politely, a persuasive rationale.