CECOT Forever
DOJ tries to prove Abrego Garcia is part of MS-13: Attorney General Pam Bondi has decided that instead of working to facilitate the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) as the Supreme Court has ordered, she will instead take to X to release documents from his 2019 arrest, in which a detective claimed he was an MS-13 member.
That’s one approach, I guess.
These documents had already been publicly available, if you cared to look through the prior court proceedings. The Gang Field Interview Sheet, drafted up by Ivan Mendez, then an officer with the Prince George’s County Police Department, says Abrego Garcia was arrested with purported MS-13 members in a Home Depot parking lot, that he was wearing clothing that they believe to be affiliated with MS-13 (“a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie with rolls of money covering the eyes, ears and mouth of the presidents on the separate denominations” which “officers know such clothing to be indicative of the Hispanic gang culture”), and that a confidential informant said he was part of MS-13.
Interestingly, reporting by The New Republic notes that Mendez was suspended the next month for “providing information to a commercial sex worker who he was paying in exchange for sexual acts.” (“The information he provided focused on an on-going police investigation,” per the county’s news release.)
Information has also come out about Abrego Garcia allegedly beating his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, stemming from a protection order she filed against him in 2021: “At this point, I am afraid to be close to him,” she wrote in the protection order. “I have multiple photos/videos of how violent he can be and all the bruises he [has] left me.” She cites specific examples from August 2020 and November 2020 in which he was violent toward her. Vasquez Sura told CNN that “she sought a civil protective order in 2021 after a disagreement with Abrego Garcia” and that “she had survived a previous relationship that included domestic violence.” She says she did not appear at a court hearing and pursue the matter further: “We were able to work through this situation privately as a family, including by going to counseling.”
Working through marital troubles—even when violence is involved—appears to be something the vice president sorta…supports: “Culturally, something has clearly shifted. I think it’s easy but also probably true to blame the sexual revolution of the 1960s,” J.D. Vance said in 2022. “My grandparents had an incredibly chaotic marriage in a lot of ways, but they never got divorced, right? They were together to the end, ’til death do us part. That was a really important thing to my grandmother and my grandfather. That was clearly not true by the 70s or 80s.” (Vance has written elsewhere about his grandparents’ marriage turning violent at times.)
“Based on the sensationalism of many of the people in this room, you would think we deported a candidate for Father of the Year,” snarked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Leavitt commented from the podium that “it’s appalling and sad that Sen. [Chris] Van Hollen [D–Md.] and the Democrats applauding his trip to El Salvador today are incapable of having any shred of common sense or empathy for their own constituents and our citizens,” before gesturing to Patty Morin, a woman whose daughter was brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant in 2023. “Nobody knows this more than the woman standing to my right, Patty Morin,” added Leavitt.
Whether Rachel Morin or Laken Riley, the 22-year-old nursing student killed by an illegal immigrant while jogging, the administration keeps implying that you cannot both support due process for Abreg
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