President Donald Trump released a photograph of the gang tattoos on the hand of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the “Maryland Man” whose deportation to his native El Salvador has sparked an international incident.
On Friday, the President tweeted out a picture of Garcia’s left hand, on which can clearly be seen a marijuana leaf, followed by a smiley face, a cross and a skull, with the cross and skull disguising the numbers 1 and 3. These symbols are meant to denote MS-13, the violent criminal gang which President Trump recently declared a terrorist organization.
“This is the hand of the man that the Democrats feel should be brought back to the United States, because he is such ‘a fine and innocent person.’ They said he is not a member of MS-13, even though he’s got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles, and two Highly Respected Courts found that he was a member of MS-13, beat up his wife, etc. I was elected to take bad people out of the United States, among other things. I must be allowed to do my job. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
President Trump shared the image in response to attempts by Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, to doctor images of her husband to hide the gang tattoo.
Democrat lawmakers and opponents of President Trump have claimed that Garcia was wrongly deported to El Salvador, where he was confined in President Bukele’s Center for Terrorist Confinement (CECOT) as part of a $6 million deal with the US to house foreign gang members deported from the US using the Alien Enemies Act.
Lawmakers, including Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland), travelled to El Salvador this week to call for Garcia’s return. Sen. Van Hollen met with Garcia for a photo opportunity, after he was released from CECOT.
Garcia was detained by ICE in March and deported to El Salvador after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act.
He entered the US unlawfully in 2012 and was identified as a member of MS-13 when he was arrested by law enforcement in 2019. He was suspected of being involved in human trafficking.
In that same year, an immigration court determined that “the determination that the Respondent [Abrego Garcia] is a gang member appears to be trustworthy and is supported by other evidence in the record, namely, information contained in the Gang Field Interview Sheet.”
However, Garcia was granted a deportation withholding order because it was feared his life would be in danger if he were deported back to El Salvador.
In a twist to the broader saga of deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, early this morning the Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting an unspecified number of Venezuelan men. The men are all alleged to be members of a foreign criminal gang.
“The Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court,” the order states.
The order, which grants an emergency application filed by the Venezuelan men, was subject to dissent from Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
The emergency application was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which asked the Supreme Court to block the Trump administration from deporting its clients. The ACLU is also seeking a temporary restraining order in the US District Court of the District of Columbia and a stay of removal from the Fifth Circuit.
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