The really weak argument against Abrego Garcia

Well, I guess I would say it was a pretty interesting day in the Trump administration.

They were trying to swear in Dr. Oz as the director of the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services, and one of his young family members fainted during the process.

But it's at the end of that process Donald Trump went up and he made some comments about Kilmar Abrega-Garcia and Kilmar is the man as we know, about a month ago he was rounded up with a bunch of other immigrants quote unquote and purported to be most of them if not all of them were purported to be MS-13 gang members they were sent over to El Salvador to that SECO prison the maximum security prison and the thing about it is We can't litigate every

person that was sent over there because we don't know the details about every single person. All we know is that Donald Trump said that most of the people, if not all of them, were gang members, right? We're supposed to believe that. Largely because he knows what he's doing. I know what the hell I'm doing. I know what I'm doing. Yeah, right. Okay. We're not believing it. But the one person that we can litigate and talk about is Kilmar Abrega Garcia.

And that is because the administration has said it was a mistake to send him to that prison. They've admitted as much. So are they trying to bring him back? Oh, hell no. Despite the Supreme Court coming back and saying that they were supposed to facilitate his transfer back to the United States. Of course, of course not. You know, they're not going to do that.

So the other thing was that Democratic Senator Van Hollen was out, actually flew out to El Salvador, and it didn't look like he was going to be able to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. And then at the last minute, they said he could meet with him, and he was able to exchange notes from his wife back in Maryland. So this is one of his constituents, and trying to secure the release of this man.

So after he met with him, the president of El Salvador came out and said, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the death camps and torture, now sipping margaritas with Senator Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador. He also said that now he's been confirmed, now that he's been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador's custody.

And again, a guy that the administration has already said, you know, we mistakenly sent him over there and they're gaming the system, The gamers will game, and that's what's going on at this point, folks.

So here's what Donald Trump said. So in that press conference after the person fainted, they're trying to swear in Dr. Oz and confirm him, you know, and do a little hoopla around that. He said this. Two separate judges affirmed, affirmed, Garcia was a member of MS-13.

When Garcia was originally arrested, he was wearing a sweatshirt with rolls of money pouring out, an MS-13 gang symbol that he was driving with two other known violent MS-13 gang members, two of the most violent members that we know of in the MS-13 gang of thugs. In 2022, Garcia was stopped by the Tennessee Highway Patrol and was found to be transporting seven people from Texas to Maryland, and he had no driver's license. He was driving violently.

In 2020 and 2021, Garcia's wife filed for a protective order from him and said he was violent and abusive and really scary. Really scary. Really scary, folks. Well, his wife is the one that's actually spearheading the whole effort to get her husband back over. So yeah, they might have had a little bit of trouble there, but I think that because she's trying to get him to come back, I think things are better there and it's not as scary as it was.

And then did you hear the other situation where he said he's a criminal because he was transporting people from Texas and got pulled over because he had no driver's license on him? I mean, he was transporting people and that's a problem? I mean, if he was doing something wrong, he would have been put in prison. I mean, clearly, right? I mean, we've all managed to drive a little bit somewhere at some time without our driver's license.

Yeah, it's not that big of a deal. But then the other part that he was talking about, and specifically he was saying that he's a member of MS-13 and making claims that he was in MS-13 that were basically based on tenuous evidence, such as what he was wearing at that time. He was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie with imagery interpreted to be gang-related. What gang? We're not sure of. It just looked like he was a part of a gang. That's all I can tell you.

Well, I mean, that's not good enough. There was also, in that situation, an unverified informant's statement. Unverified informant's statement. And so again, folks, I mean, if the guy had done anything wrong, he would have been put in a police car. He would have been, you know, taken to prison, all that jazz. None of that happened. None of that happened. So what I'm saying is that bring the man over. And if you think he is that bad, put him in a court and let's have a trial and see what happens.

They're not going to do that because there is no evidence, folks. That would be the logical thing to do. If you think he's a criminal, bring him back over here and give him a hearing since you said you made a mistake. But will they do that? No. No. So it's this situation, folks, that's especially egregious because they said they made a mistake and they're not going to right the wrong that they did. And it's a pattern of making these people out to be criminals. And they're clearly not criminals.

And as a segue into another situation about immigrants and how they're interpreted by the conservative right, Charlie Kirk. You've all heard of Charlie Kirk. He's got podcast. He runs Turning Point Action, you know, quote unquote Christian. And here's what he said. In this clip, I'm going to pay for you, play for you. He actually posted to TikTok because he was so proud of it. He's like, here's my smackdown of immigration.

You know, so proud of his clip. He posted it to his own account. Listen to this.

So here's what he said, folks. Have a listen. hold on so let me ask you a question if someone breaks into your country what should the punishment be i i was going to give you a different question man well i just answered it's very so you said we're nazi america so tell me if someone breaks into the united states what should the punishment be i wouldn't say it's breaking in most of the time no it is i would say i would say like i mean dude because like if other

countries are economically bad and they're coming here like they want to come here doesn't matter if someone goes and robs a 7-eleven they don't you don't get like a lesser penalty if you're broke. What is wrong is wrong, regardless of your social economic status. I get you, man. I get you. But like law is not a universal thing. No, they are. No, that's not correct. We believe as Christians and in the West and an axiological truth, which that every human being has written on their

heart, some form of right or wrong. It is inherently wrong to steal their people's stuff. It's inherently wrong to walk into people's homes uninvited. It's inherently wrong to go after somebody and harass them or whatever. So it's a universal law that you don't get to go places where you aren't invited. It's an axiological truth. Have you ever heard that statement before?

Well, folks, he's that one question that that guy asked, he was going in the right direction because he was trying to say that these people were oppressed and they're leaving their countries because of that. And you notice how Charlie cut him off and ran into this other section, you know, that just basically, you know, let him bolster his argument that they were entering the country illegally and that made them criminals. But there is something in law, folks, called the necessity defense.

It's also known as the choice of evils defense. And it basically says that if someone trespasses because they're in immediate danger and there's no reasonable alternative, they should not be held criminally liable. In other words, the harm they avoided... Was greater than the harm that they caused by trespassing.

They didn't create the danger in their countries. They're being chased out of their countries by people that want to kill them, people that are corrupt that want to financially ruin them, if not worse. Right? I mean, they are in danger. And that's where that guy was going in that conversation, and Charlie grabbed it before he could actually enunciate that and finish his statement so that he could prove his point, that if you just trespass, then you're illegal, then you're a criminal.

And folks, it's this, I don't know how to describe it other than to say that there's this fog of entitlement that people like Charlie Kirk have and many on the right half. They just can't see the reality of what these people are dealing with. They either can't see it or they don't want to deal with it themselves. Because if they deal with the fact that these people are in danger of losing their lives if they don't leave, then they can't be as strong on anti-immigration as they want to be.

They have to blockade that out of their mind. And you know, on the other hand, they're so entitled. They've never had a situation where they couldn't make a meal. They don't know what it's like to be a homeless person for even a night.

They're so entitled. They can't see it. They can't grasp it. They can't deal with it. So to them, everybody that comes in is a criminal. They're not refugees. By God, no. We can't think of it like that. No, don't go there. They don't want anyone to have any sort of empathy for these people. Because if you have empathy, then you have a heart. And then before you know it, these people are coming into the country.

And they will actually, folks, if we do not have immigration in one sense or another, this country will falter. Might take 10 years, might take 15. But if we don't have a way for people like this to come in and do the jobs that people will not do or cannot do in America, it will cost us in the long run. And folks, that's the point I just want to make. So they're pushing back so hard and people like Abrego, they are not criminals. And we have to fight for this. I mean, it's not right.

We need to make it right. We have to fight for it. We have to push for it. We can't let it go. Till next time, folks.