The Trump administration remains adamant that the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador will not return to the United States despite a court order for his return.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains in a notorious megaprison in El Salvador with both Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele claiming that neither country is responsible for his return to the U.S.
“And if he ever ends up back in the United States, he would immediately be deported again,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Wednesday afternoon. “Nothing will change the fact that Abrego Garcia will never be a Maryland father. He will never live in the United States of America again.”
Leavitt berated Democrats, singling out Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who visited El Salvador on Wednesday, for defending Abrego Garcia.
The press secretary slammed Abrego Garcia over alleged reports from the Department of Homeland Security that his wife “sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, claiming he punched, scratched, and ripped off her shirt, among other harm.”
“Not only are Democrats rushing to defend an illegal criminal, foreign terrorist gang member, but also an apparent woman-beater,” Leavitt said. “To set all of that aside, the basic fact that he was illegally inside our country and had a lawful deportation order made him subject to removal back to his home country of El Salvador.”
Despite being granted protective status by a federal judge, Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador.
The Supreme Court later ruled that the Trump administration must “facilitate” his return, but the White House has argued it is not its duty to “effectuate” his return. Leavitt’s Wednesday comment goes even further by asserting that Abrego Garcia will “never” live again in the U.S.
Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, who was murdered by an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, also spoke at the briefing, criticizing Van Hollen for not properly acknowledging her daughter’s death.
“To have a senator from Maryland who didn’t even acknowledge or barely acknowledged my daughter and the brutal death that she endured leaving, her five children without a mother and now a grandbaby without a grandmother so that he can use my taxpayer money to fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that’s not even an American citizen,” Patty Morin said. “I don’t understand this.”
A jury convicted Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez of Rachel Morin’s murder on Monday.
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