The Abrego Garcia case pulls Democrats into the immigration debate Trump wants to have
- Senator Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador to discuss Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was labeled by the Trump administration as an MS-13 gang member with a history of spousal abuse.
- Ron Vitiello, former director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, stated that Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 gang member and emphasized the political left's distortion of reality.
- Van Hollen emphasized that his trip was to uphold due process and noted that there was no evidence linking Abrego Garcia with MS-13, as stated by Judge Xinis.
- Garcia's wife advocates for his return, emphasizing that everyone has due process rights, even if he is a gang member.
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What Due Process Was Owed to Kilmar Abrego Garcia?
Photo by Adam FagenAmerican politics has been gripped by debates about “due process” lately.It has become a rallying cry for Democrats, who charge that due process has been denied to migrants deported by the Trump administration. (According to Politico, they believe opposing his immigration agenda on these grounds will be more politically palatable than attacking the policies themselves.) And it has become a ready-made retort for Republicans, wh…
Democrats can afford to fight for Kilmar Abrego Garcia
A rally in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia takes place outside the US District Court for the District of Maryland on April 15, 2025, in Greenbelt, Maryland. | Maansi Srivastava/The Washington Post via Getty Images President Donald Trump has been sending undocumented immigrants to a mega prison in El Salvador without due process. Most of these deportees have no criminal record, yet our government has condemned them to indefinite incarceration in …
An ambivalent hero: Abrego Garcia divides the Democrats
The case of the Salvadoran Kilmar Ábrego García, who was "inadvertently deported", is a big issue in the US. The Trump administration tramples on the fundamental rights of the Salvadoran and ignores the courts. But many voters hardly seem to care.
The Van, the Flight, and the Machinery of Harm
What Freddie Gray and Kilmar Abrego Garcia Reveal About Us Sometimes, the stories that stay with us aren’t the loudest. They don’t always come with viral videos or global headlines. But they echo—quietly, persistently—because they reveal something uncomfortable about the country we live in. We’ve been thinking about two of those stories. One is familiar: Freddie Gray. He was 25 years old when he died in police custody in Baltimore City in April …
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