Jun 6, 2025
Abrego Garcia Returns To The U.S. After Deportation To El Salvador
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was brought back to the United States after the Trump administration admitted they mistakenly deported him.
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Of Brega.
Garcia has landed
in the United States to face justice.
On May 21st,
a grand jury in the Middle District
of Tennessee returned a sealed indictment
charging Abrego Garcia
with alien smuggling
and conspiracy to commit alien smuggling
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in violation of title eight U.S.C. 1324.
We want to thank President Bukele
for agreeing to return Abrego Garcia
to the United States.
Our government presented El Salvador
with an arrest warrant, and they agreed
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to return him to our country.
So over two months ago,
the Trump administration admitted that it
had mistakenly deported Kilmer Abrego.
Garcia.
Today,
he has returned to the United States.
And as you just heard
from Attorney General Pam Bondi,
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he is now facing charges.
So here's Bondi with more on what Garcia
has actually been charged with.
Upon completion of his sentence,
we anticipate he will be returned
to his home country of El Salvador.
The grand jury found
that over the past nine years, Abrego
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Garcia has played a significant role
in an alien smuggling ring.
They found this was his full time job,
not a contractor.
He was a smuggler of humans
and children and women.
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He made over 100 trips.
The grand jury found smuggling people
throughout our country.
Ms. 13 members,
violent gang terrorist organization
members throughout our country.
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Thousands of illegal aliens were smuggled.
If Abrego Garcia is convicted,
both crimes are punishable
by up to ten years in prison.
Today, ABC news reported that,
according to sources familiar
with the investigation.
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The criminal investigation that led
to these new charges began back in April,
and it has to do with a traffic stop
back in Tennessee in 2022, when Abrego
Garcia was pulled over for speeding.
He had eight passengers in his car.
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So here are those details.
Abrego Garcia told police they had been
working construction in Missouri.
According to body camera footage of the
2022 traffic stop, the Tennessee Troopers.
After questioning Abrego,
Garcia discussed among themselves
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their suspicions that Abrego Garcia might
be transporting people for money.
Because nine people
were traveling without luggage, but Abrego
Garcia was not ticketed or charged.
Abrego Garcia was let off with a warning.
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This year, the Justice Department
questioned the man who owned the vehicle
that Abrego Garcia was driving
during that traffic stop.
So after being granted limited immunity,
the man allegedly told investigators
that he previously operated
a taxi service based in Baltimore.
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He claimed to have met Abrego Garcia
around 2015, and claimed to have hired him
on multiple occasions to transport
undocumented migrants from Texas
to various locations in the United States.
When details of the Tennessee
traffic stop were first publicized,
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Abrego, Garcia's wife, said her husband
sometimes transported groups of fellow
construction workers between job sites.
The indictment alleges that Abrego Garcia
picked up the migrants in Houston, Texas,
and then transported them
deeper into the United States,
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so Abrego, Garcia
and six Coconspirators also allegedly
collected financial payments
from migrants for their movements.
According to the indictment, that money
was then transferred between one another.
The Justice Department said, claiming
it was an effort to hide their origins.
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So even if Abrego Garcia
is found to be guilty of something.
It still does not justify the actions
of our government in the first place, for
deporting him prior to any investigation
or due process or conviction.
Of course, it would help with the optics
as far as justifying these deportations
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to the people who already support
and want to support these deportations,
to the point that they are sort of fine
with flouting the Constitution
and not giving these people due process.
So they really want to make an example,
it seems, out of Abrego Garcia to
legitimize their operations to their base.
But this also might feel a little bit
like an intimidation tactic, as in, they
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want Abrego Garcia to regret even coming
back to this country, even while he was
wrongfully deported in the first place.
What do you think?
Yeah, I think there's
two important points here.
One is why are they doing this, which is
not being talked about in the press?
Let me tell you why.
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So there's some lawsuits,
about this that they want to avoid,
but that's relatively minor.
So the big thing is the Supreme Court
told them to return Abrego Garcia then,
but it was not the final decision.
They brought it back to the lower courts
and it was working its way back up.
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The lower courts
and the lower courts were all confirming.
Bring him back, bring him back.
What they didn't want is for it to get
back to the Supreme Court and for the
Supreme Court to say no, what you're doing
is obviously unconstitutional,
and you must bring him back.
They wanted to avoid that embarrassment
and that loggerheads that would have
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put them in with the Supreme Court,
which, by the way,
I'm glad they avoided that, because then
that's a constitutional crisis.
If they don't listen
to a final Supreme Court decision.
So that's what they were trying
to avoid here.
But what they don't want is,
oh, we just bring him back because the
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courts ordered us to, because Trump's ego
is way too large for that,
and his skin is way too thin for that.
So he's like,
he needs a face saving gesture.
So. Oh, yes, we're bringing him back
to trial for criminal charges.
Now, one of our members, Nomadic Bloom,
said something that I agree with.
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They said I need to see proof.
But if he did the crime,
he should serve the time.
And then in brackets in the United States.
That's right.
If you do a crime in the US,
you should serve time.
Here. You should be brought to justice.
So if it was true, I would say okay.
I mean, that's fair.
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But now some caveats
to that that are important.
Look, in terms of the actual substance
of what he did in transporting them,
I don't know.
And I can't make that judgment call
based on what evidence we have here.
I'm not saying that he's definitely
innocent on that, and I'm certainly not
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saying he's guilty on that, I don't know.
So why don't we know, number one,
that person that they made the deal
with that said, oh yeah, he was
running a taxi service inside the country
for undocumented immigrants.
He got offered immunity
for that testimony.
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So if you go inside a jail and you waiver
on immunity for Donald Trump's purposes,
somebody's going to tell you
Aubrey Garcia did something wrong.
So. But it could be true.
Well, that's what we have
court system for.
So I'm curious how this trial is going to
go, but I found a second piece of evidence
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to be very compelling, guys.
ABC news reporting,
and I'll quote them here.
The decision to pursue the indictment
against Abrego Garcia led to the abrupt
departure of Ben Schrader, a high ranking
federal prosecutor in Tennessee.
Schrader's resignation was prompted by
concerns that the case was being pursued
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for political reasons, the sources said.
And Schrader's 15 years serving there
and as head of the criminal division,
if the head of the criminal division
resigns in protests because he thinks
you're doing a political prosecution
of someone, that's a pretty big sign
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that you're doing a political prosecution.
Bret, what do you think?
It's definitely like they're pretending
they did nothing wrong.
Did you listen to Pam Bondi?
She told you the guy's been
convicted by a grand jury?
That's not what grand juries do.
Grand juries don't say
they found this person guilty of this.
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Grand juries listened to the evidence
and say whether we
should get an indictment going.
Is there enough evidence
for us to proceed with the process?
She just told you that a grand jury does
what a grand jury does not do,
and she does that because it's a.
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And now she's pretending
that everything was above board.
And now we've really got the guy.
No, they messed up.
I. The trap here is to talk about
whether Garcia did any of this.
That's a trap because I don't care.
That's that's the stuff
that we're supposed to let
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the the justice system do correctly.
The crooks here
are the Trump administration.
The crooks here
are the Trump administration.
That just was like, oh, let's just throw
people out of the country, regardless
of whether we're giving them due process,
something that is guaranteed
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in the Constitution of the United States.
They skipped that part.
They got caught for skipping that part.
Every court along the way said,
you skipped that part.
We caught you.
And there's Pam Bondi being like,
this is you guys are all making a mistake.
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We're doing everything right,
and this guy's going to jail.
He's been convicted already.
If I said something like this on
that show, they would rightly sue
me for it because he hasn't been convicted
of jack squat yet.
I can't say that unless we got
a confession or a conviction.
She just did that because she's Pam Bondi
and I know they posture like that in the
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court of law, but this is all textbook.
And the last thing I'll say is reminder
Pam Bondi is a crooked person.
Pam Bondi was investigating
the Donald Trump Organization
until they gave her $25,000.
The whole story itself is comically
ridiculous, but the long story short is
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after that money went into her pocket,
she stopped investigating the guy
and gave a litany of what would then
be proven to be false statements.
At worst and at best, like misstatements
about actually what went down.
But really,
it just turned out to be a bribe.
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So I'm going to quote Velvet Goldmine,
who's a member on Twitch.
If this isn't manufactured, then
why didn't they say anything about these
charges when they were trying to justify
his deportation in the first place?
So that's a good question, they claim.
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Oh, well, we looked into him and golly
gee, this crime popped up out of nowhere.
And then we had to go find an informant
who we were going to give immunity to
and let him out of jail at some point.
Right.
And then so now, we're now deeply
concerned about this new crime
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we happen to coincidentally find
to cover our tracks,
but we're super concerned about it.
Well, maybe, but I doubt it.
So, look, I'm not saying again
that I know how the court's going to rule
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on the the actual case here,
but the most important point
is the one Brett's making, which is,
this isn't about one particular person,
whether they did or did not do a crime.
And again, let me clarify
one other thing about the crime.
They're making it sound like he smuggled
in these poor people into the country.
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It was Is driving.
The allegations
are driving people to work.
They happen to be undocumented.
And so that's apparently
what's like the most dangerous,
horrible crime in the world.
So we'll let the courts adjudicate that.
And that's the point.
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That's our constitutional republic,
where courts decide that and not
these bozos who are running roughshod
over the Constitution and saying,
who cares about due process?
Let's lock up random people.
Yeah, I just I hate the optics of it,
and I know that their base is going
to say, look, see, he was a criminal all
along and there in their minds is going
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to justify everything that happened,
but it simply will not,
because we know that this never should
have happened in the first place.
And no matter what they find
in this investigation, whatever they end
up finding, it's never going to make
what they did in the first place.
Okay.
And I feel like that point needs
to just be emphasized until we can't
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say it anymore because it's there.
We know how it's going to play out.
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