Why is Kilmar Abrego Garcia back in the United States? He was out, he was gone, and now he’s back. Why? Incompetent leadership at the Justice Department, that’s why. And it is unforgivable.
Kilmar, the illegal alien from El Salvador – who may or may not be a gang member, may or may not have beaten his then girlfriend, now wife, and may or may not have helped traffic human beings for whatever purpose – needs to be the hell out of here as soon as possible. I don’t care where he goes, I care that he goes. I don’t care if he was a gang member of was trafficking people, the fact that he’s an illegal alien is enough.
But he’s not gone, he’s here. He may be deported again quickly, but his massive team of high- priced lawyers and liberal activist judges make that unlikely. So, in reality, this guy may be in the country for the rest of his life after having been removed once already.
Why the hell did the Attorney General bring him back?
I know a lot of people love Pam Bondi, and I never really had a problem with her before when she was the Attorney General of Florida or just a random Fox News pundit. But she has been wholly unimpressive as Attorney General of the United States.
She has engaged in some high profile indictments, which if they lead to convictions will be good, but otherwise she has caused more problems than she’s solved.
Remember the Epstein binders? A group of “influencers” summoned to the White House to be given special access to information…that was already publicly available. All that was new was the binder with a cover sheet and the use of a 3-hole punch.
It was embarrassing to watch.
It was supposed to be the first round of multiple releases that would “finally show the world the truth about Jeffrey Epstein.” It didn’t do anything of the sort.
Months after promising to release “the list” and telling the world it was on her desk for review, she switched gears to “there is no list” and tried to move on quickly. This is like knocking over a try of glasses in a quiet room, then walking away slowly like you weren’t even in town that month.
A massive conspiracy she helped fuel as a talking head was now nothing? OK, fine, it’s one thing to guess about something when you don’t have access to the information, but speculation she and the people running the FBI engaged in was not tempered by any qualifiers about how this is only a guess, that they don’t have any special insights. No, they all insisted they knew things, “had sources,” and were not interested in qualifiers. Certainty sells, hedging does not, so even if you don’t know you should never tell anyone one you don’t, lest your influence shrink. Probably part of the reason why you not only shouldn’t use “influencers” to get out important information, they also shouldn’t run important things.
When Bondi brought back Kilmar to face charges of human trafficking I could not, for the life of me figure out why she would do it. The whole point of anything involving him was to deport him and he was gone. The mission was accomplished.
The case for trafficking is pretty obvious on film and pretty flimsy in reality. The tape is there, he’s driving a van load of illegals across the country. But we don’t really know why or what became of them. This helper agreed to testify against Kilmar, but only in exchange for being allowed to stay in the country. What’s the point of that?
You don’t have to be a lawyer to know that’s pretty easy to attack on cross-examination.
The smart play would have been to accept the win and keep him out of the country. Now he’s been released from custody on his smuggling case, got a weekend at home with a wife who’s twice accused him of abuse (do you think she could speak up now, give how the left has made him a hero? She’s stuck) and will have a million appeals and delays created by his lawyers. He may never leave.
There are reports that he would be deported to Uganda and that the feds would send him to Costa Rica (which has agreed to accept him), but only if he pleads guilty to the trafficking. Who cares? Get him the hell out of here to anywhere he won’t fight. I don’t care if he lives out his days sitting on a beach in Costa Rica with every Congressional Democrat making an annual pilgrimage to visit him there, as long as he’s there. This is about the principle more than the person. Or at least should be.
But never forget, he was already gone. Whoever thought up this plan should be fired, and whoever approved it needs to go too. If they’re willing to do something that stupid, Lord knows what else they could do.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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