Trump nennt Abrego Garcia ein „Tier“, behauptet, dass die Demokraten ihn verteidigen, weil „sie glauben, dass er für Stimmen gut sein wird“.

Defending the Constitution is good for votes. Dumbass Donnie

Autocratic dictators use dehumanizing language, like calling someone an “animal,” or “vermin.” This behavior of dehumanizing the other makes it easier to rationalize abusing or killing them.

Like you really fucked up with this one, US.

El Salvador, back to the US, then to Uganda, all the while ignoring the courts.

Just stop being cruel, FFS. A country without honour.

If free and fair elections weren’t a thing of the past I would say there goes the Latino vote

Are you sure the US president isn’t an animal instead?

We defend him because he’s a human being and the Trump administration treats him like an animal.

We have due process for a reason. Or should say had.

An “animal”? That’s just super fucked up. Actual dehumanization straight from the Nazi playbook. This clown is a fascist piece of rotting garbage.

Anyone who has any empathy, or can read in general, knows where this leads.

Donald Trump is a disgusting human being.

He calls Abrego Garcia an “animal” because he’s Latino. Apparently to Trump, “Great” means “White Only”. Fuck racism. Fuck this bullshit rhetoric. And fuck MAGA. 🖕🏼

I hate suggesting this, but is Abrego Garcia better off seeking asylum in Canada at this point? He’s an innocent man being singled out and targeted by the president. I’m glad he’s out of El Salvador, but he’s not safe in the United States anymore.

Get this facist fuck out of the office right now

Friendly reminder: there is zero evidence for any pending charge against this man.

Speaking of animals. Trump is a baboon.

This really underscores the point that this whole fiasco was a red herring from the start. Republicans carried out a painstaking, joint effort to distract Americans from the Trump administration’s unlawful actions on immigration by pushing messaging that sought to discredit Garcia in the public eye.

The GOP chose to demonize Garcia and make him out to be a criminal whose rights did not deserve protecting, all so they could drive the focus away from Trump’s unconstitutional actions.

But they also managed to drive attention away from the fact that scores of harmless or innocent people have also been arrested, detained or deported without due process, and many with no criminal records for that matter.

Trump’s immigration agents have been targeting legal residents, visa holders and applicants, asylum seekers, foreign students, green card carriers, protestors, children, taxpayers, veterans, and even US citizens.

They’ve been waiting outside of courtrooms to arrest migrants who have actually shown up to their hearings, and the government has also been revoking the legal statuses of migrants who have gone through the proper citizenship channels.

The Trump admin was on the losing side of this battle every step of the way. They ignored multiple court orders, they threatened and arrested judges, and they flouted the law repeatedly. *This* is the real issue.

But Republicans didn’t succeed at misleading *all* Americans, as polls previously revealed that a majority [did not agree with the way that Trump was handling immigration](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-poll-approval.html?smid=nytcore-android-share)

The courts ruled that Garcia was unlawfully deported and denied due process. Judges overseeing the case saw that the Trump admin was constantly violating the law. This is what deserved our attention.

That said, after Garcia was returned, the DOJ sought to rectify its mistake by charging him with crimes that could warrant his deportation.

The Trump admin wants to do everything within its power to make certain that Garcia is convicted instead of admitting to its „administrative error.“

The decision to charge Garcia with human trafficking—rather than gang-related crimes—was clearly an attempt to retroactively justify his unlawful deportation.

**How it all went down.**

Kilmar Garcia was previously granted protection status under US immigration law when an immigration judge ruled he was allowed to continue living in the US and obtain a work permit due to fears of persecution and a credible threat in El Salvador.

And although this „withholding of removal“ is not the same as asylum, it requires a greater burden of proof than asylum, making it an even stronger argument against deportation.

The courts ruled that the Trump admin ignored the withholding order and that Garcia was denied due process. The supreme Court attests to this.

> The United States acknowledges that Abrego Garcia was subject to a withholding order forbidding his removal to El Salvador, and that the removal to El Salvador ***was therefore illegal.***

> To this day, the Government ***has cited no basis in law*** for Abrego Garcia’s ***warrantless arrest,*** ***his removal*** to El Salvador, or ***his confinement*** in a Salvadoran prison. Nor could it.

> … the proper remedy is to provide Abrego Garcia ***with all the process*** to which he would have been entitled had he not been ***unlawfully removed*** to El Salvador. That means the Government must comply with its obligation to provide Abrego Garcia with ***“due process of law,”***

> Moreover, it has been the Government’s own well-established policy to “facilitate [an] alien’s return to the United States if . . . the alien’s presence is necessary for continued administrative removal proceedings

Garcia’s case hadn’t gone through the proper proceedings, so if the Trump admin was really intent on invalidating Garcia’s withholding order, he had to be returned and afforded legal remedy on this matter.

But after Garcia was finally returned, he faced charges related to transporting undocumented migrants and not his alleged gang affiliations.

This contradicts arguments that Garcia was already afforded due process back in 2019, and that he was somehow charged with being a gang member. There is no such charge and this is not the case.

– Garcia wasn’t charged with any gang related crimes.

– No concrete evidence was provided to support the allegation that he is a gang member.

– Garcia’s criminal record was clean.

There was no explicit evidence proving his MS-13 gang status outside of an „unnamed informant“ claiming that Garcia was an active member of New York’s „Western Clique,“ despite never living in New York. This allegation has been characterized as „double hearsay.“

> The uncross-examined detective’s accusation came from an unidentified informant who was also, perforce, uncross-examined—a second layer of hearsay.

Additionally, the officer that authored the informant’s claim was later fired for multiple incidents of misconduct, calling his credibility and the credibility of the accusations into question.

Also, the faulty Gangnet database used to flag Garcia as a gang member was disbanded. This system was never meant to be used as the basis for arrests or charges either.

However, the informant’s claim still led police to identify Garcia as a gang member based on him wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie, which did not hold evidentiary weight.

One Judge weighed in:

> [Judge] Xinis noted that Abrego Garcia has no criminal convictions in the U.S. or El Salvador, and said the evidence meant to support allegations of gang affiliation “consisted of nothing more than his ***Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie,*** and a ***vague, uncorroborated allegation*** from a confidential informant claiming he belonged to MS-13’s ‘Western’ clique in New York — ***a place he has never lived.”***

But the fact(s) of the matter is, Garcia was unlawfully arrested and deported by the government and he was not provided the due process that he would have otherwise been entitled to receive.

One Reagan appointed judge said:

> “The government asserts that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist and a member of MS-13. Perhaps, but perhaps not. Regardless, he is still entitled to due process. If the government is confident of its position, it should be assured that position will prevail in proceedings to terminate the withholding of removal order,” he wrote.

Garcia’s case wasn’t properly litigated, and after returning to the US, it was obvious that the Trump admin was determined to keep him in custody and charge him with crimes unrelated to the accusations that Republicans have consistently made against him.

It’s also important to note that this was not about defending the man himself, but defending the rights of all persons who have been illegally detained and/or deported by our current regime.

Republicans would have you believe the former, and no matter the outcome of Garcia’s situation, they will continue to accuse Trump critics of being „criminal“ or „gang“ sympathizers. But in reality, we just want the Trump administration to be held accountable for waging an unconstitutional war against the people.