John Binder 23 Apr 2025
Democrat consultants are warning Democrats that they are taking a massive political risk by defending an illegal alien deported to El Salvador after being accused of MS-13 gang membership, domestic violence, and human trafficking.
Last month, the Trump administration deported 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia — an illegal alien from El Salvador who had been arrested in 2019 and accused by the Prince George’s County Police Department of being a member of the violent MS-13 gang.
Federal immigration judges likewise believed Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13 after a reliable criminal informant confirmed the illegal alien’s rank within the gang.
Before this arrest, Abrego Garcia’s wife accused him of domestic violence, and he was accused of being involved in a human trafficking operation in Tennessee in December 2022.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) flew to El Salvador this month and met with Abrego Garcia while Reps. Robert Garcia (D-CA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), and Maxine Dexter (D-OR) — called the “El Salvador Four” — traveled to El Salvador this week to demand the illegal alien’s return to the United States.
Democrat consultants, behind the scenes, are panicking over the prospect that voters will side against Democrats for defending Abrego Garcia.
“People can’t afford eggs, and … you’re flying to sit with someone who’s accused of being in a gang,” a Democrat consultant told The Hill:
“Democrats want to think that everyone has the same morals and values that we do, and we want to think that everyone’s outraged by the same things that we are and we want to be the ones to help people and stand up for the moral injustices. That doesn’t necessarily win elections though, and last cycle was proof positive of that,” the operative continued. “We need to step back and wait for someone to be deported who has a really compelling story that’s devastating that Average Joe’s upset about. That person hasn’t presented themselves yet, and Democrats are battling their better instincts and not just hop at the first sign of injustice.”
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