The Trump administration isn’t backing down on deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the so-called “Maryland man” who became a Democratic cause célèbre earlier this year. According to court documents filed on Friday—as reported by The Washington Times—federal officials asked a judge to dissolve the preliminary injunction that’s been blocking his removal to Liberia. And despite court battles and endless media sob stories, Democrats tried to turn him into a martyr while Senator Chris Van Hollen was busy sipping margaritas with him in El Salvador, as Van Hollen himself admitted in a 2023 interview with CNN.
Let’s remember who we’re talking about here. Abrego Garcia isn’t some random immigrant caught up in a paperwork snafu—he’s a Salvadoran national who was deported last March to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison, according to statements from the Trump administration. The administration maintains he was a member of the vicious MS-13 gang, though he and his attorneys deny it, as detailed in a 2019 Department of Justice report. A 2019 court order had barred his deportation specifically to El Salvador due to claimed fear of persecution, but that protection doesn’t extend to keeping him in the United States indefinitely while he flouts our immigration laws—as outlined in the court’s ruling from the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
The administration’s latest filing makes clear they intend to remove him to Liberia as soon as the courts allow, based on Trump administration press releases. This is how immigration enforcement is supposed to work—identify those who have no legal right to be here, including criminal aliens and gang affiliates, and remove them. The fact that Democrats have chosen this hill to die on tells you everything about their priorities, as evidenced by Senate Democrats’ opposition to DHS funding bills in 2023 congressional records. While American citizens wait in endless TSA lines at airports thanks to Democratic obstruction of DHS funding, Senate Democrats are working overtime to protect illegal aliens instead of the people they were elected to represent.
We’ve seen this movie before. Activist judges rush in to save the day for open-border advocates, issuing nationwide injunctions that tie the administration’s hands while they figure out new ways to keep criminal aliens on American streets. The question isn’t whether some federal judge will try to block this deportation again—it’s when, as similar cases have shown in past rulings from the Ninth Circuit Court. But the Trump administration is making it clear: they’re not giving up on enforcing our laws, no matter how many margaritas Democratic senators drink with foreign nationals who have no business being here.
Providence watches over the bold.
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