Democrats are lashing out after dangerous MS-13 gang member and illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and now faces possible deportation to Uganda.
Abrego Garcia was taken into custody on Monday during an immigration check-in at a Baltimore facility.
However, Democrat-aligned U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee, stepped in to temporarily block his deportation to the East African nation.
The activist judge ordered Abrego Garcia be held in Virginia until a hearing can take place.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who has been leading the charge to protect Abrego Garcia, blasted the arrest, claiming:
“ICE is holding Kilmar Ábrego García and refusing to answer questions from his lawyers while the Trump Admin continues to spread lies about his case.”
He added: “Instead of spewing unproven allegations on social media, they need to put up or shut up IN COURT.
“Mr. Ábrego García must be allowed to defend himself.”
The arrest came just days after Abrego Garcia was released from custody in Tennessee, where he had been awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking.
Earlier this year, the Trump administration deported him to El Salvador.
However, following Democrat protests over due process and a Supreme Court order, the wife-beating gang member was returned to the U.S.
Van Hollen has repeatedly elevated Abrego Garcia’s case, calling it a “long and torturous nightmare.”
He said he told the Salvadoran during a virtual meeting that “I and many others have been fighting for months to ensure that his constitutional due process rights were respected despite Trump’s efforts to deny them at every turn.”
Unfortunately, the statement needs to be translated into Spanish, as, despite living in America illegally for 14 years, Abrego Garcia cannot speak English.
On X, Van Hollen accused the administration of “malicious abuse of power” and vowed:
“I won’t stop fighting for justice & due process for all.”
Other Democrats quickly joined the collective meltdown.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wrote:
“Now, just days after he was reunited with his family, they’re trying to deny him his rights and deport him to Uganda.
“Kilmar—like everyone—deserves a fair hearing to defend himself.”
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said:
“Let’s be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no sense—it’s not his home country.
“Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty.
“This is the weaponization of government, not justice.”
Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD), who attended a rally for Abrego Garcia, also declared:
“Mr. Abrego Garcia must not be sent to some third-party country like Uganda.
“The people united will continue to seek justice for Kilmar!”
The Trump administration, however, has made clear that Abrego Garcia is a dangerous criminal.
The Department of Homeland Security posted on X:
“Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not and will never be a Maryland Man—he is a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador and public safety threat.”
DHS blasted Democrats’ support as “insane,” saying “sanctuary politicians chose to glorify and stand with an MS-13 gang member over the safety of American citizens.”
The agency added that Trump and Secretary Kristi Noem “are not going to allow this illegal alien—who is an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator—to terrorize American citizens any longer.”
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement:
“Democrats have proven that they care more about a criminal illegal alien MS-13 member who beat his wife than they do about the safety and security of the American people.
“The Trump Administration will never apologize for fulfilling our promise to deport criminal illegal aliens.”
Abrego Garcia’s defenders pushed back.
His family’s attorney, Chris Newman, denied DHS’s description outright:
“None of those things are true, full stop.
“The problem here is that the administration is trying its hardest to litigate this case through the media, as opposed to through courts of law.”
He accused the White House of trying to “blackmail an innocent man into sacrificing his constitutional rights.”
Rep. Ivey echoed that argument in a statement, saying Trump is “ignoring the law.”
“When I prosecuted MS-13 cases, we indicted, tried the case, won the convictions, sentence them to jail time, and did not support them until after they had served their jail sentence.
“That way, we followed the constitution and the law.
“The Trump administration is ignoring both.
“They want to deport them without giving them the day in court that the Supreme Court has required.
“And they want to jail them indefinitely, even though they haven’t been convicted of a crime.
“That’s wrong, and I’ll continue to fight against it.”
The battle over Abrego Garcia has now become another flashpoint in the broader war over immigration and public safety.
The issue is pitting Democrats defending the rights of a violent man with gang ties against a Trump administration determined to deport the dangerous foreign criminal for good.
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