Yesterday, I tweeted out after hearing a segment on National Public Radio on the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. NPR reported that there was no evidence presented that Abrego Garcia was an MS-13 member and that “he had been living quietly in Maryland” before he was suddenly arrested and deported. While many disagree on the handling of the case, few would agree that Abrego Garcia who was reported for spousal abuse and suspected of human trafficking was “living quietly in Maryland.”
Anyone listening to the radio program would have been left with an incomplete and distorted account of the case.
The print story used the same language as the radio segment. NPR claimed that Abrego Garcia
“was granted protection by an immigration judge in 2019 that should have prevented his deportation. He had been living quietly in Maryland with his wife and three children and working in construction until Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested and deported him last month.”
I have previously said that I believe the Administration should have returned Abrego Garcia to the United States for a correct and prompt deportation. If he were to be brought back, I cannot see any barrier to Abrego Garcia not only being deported but deported back to El Salvador.
NPR leaves out a couple of facts in its passing reference to his being “granted protection by an immigration judge.” Abrego Garcia already had a hearing at which the judge found evidence that he was an MS-13 member. It was not only based on his being arrested with MS-13 gang members and wearing clothing associated with the gang. It was also based on a confidential source connected to the gang. After losing at his hearing, Abrego Garcia then lost on appeal.
The only reason that Abrego Garcia was not removed is that he said that he was being threatened by a gang that could harm him in El Salvador. That gang, however, reportedly no longer exists.
More importantly, President Trump has declared MS-13 a Foreign Terrorist Organization, which bars the use of the justification for his not being removed. In other words, he has little factual or legal foundation under his original claims to remain in the country.
However, putting the merits aside, NPR’s portrayal of Abrego Garcia was bizarre. He was repeatedly accused of beating his wife. The court record states:
“Per the Prince Georges County Police Gang Unit, ABREGO-Garcia was validated as a member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) Gang. Subject was identified as a member of the Mara Salvatrucha MS-13, “Chequeo” from the Western Clique a transnational criminal street gang. This information was provided by tested source who has provided truthful accurate information in the past. See Prince Georges County Police Department (Gang Sheet).”
Abrego Garcia was also suspected of human trafficking. Indeed, the description of the stop leaves one astonished that he was allowed to simply drive away. According to DHS:
“On Dec. 1, 2022, Abrego Garcia was stopped by the Tennessee Highway Patrol for speeding. Upon approach to the vehicle, the encountering officer noted eight other individuals in the vehicle. There was no luggage in the vehicle, leading the encountering officer to suspect this was a human trafficking incident. Additionally, all the passengers gave the same home address as the subject’s home address. During the interview, Abrego Garcia pretended to speak less English than he was capable of and attempted to put the encountering officer off-track by responding to questions with questions. When asked what relationship he had with the registered owner of the vehicle, Abrego Garcia replied that the owner of the vehicle is his boss, and that he worked in construction…
The encountering officer decided not to cite the subject for driving infractions but gave him a warning citation for driving with an expired driver’s license. Abrego Garcia’s driver’s license was a MD “Limited Term Temporary” license. The encountering officer gathered names of other occupants in the vehicle but could not read their handwriting. The officer did not pursue further information due to no citation being issued.”
So Abrego Garcia, an undocumented immigrant, was stopped with an expired license in a car with eight others and no luggage on a trip from Texas to Maryland. He gave a false statement and the officer suspected human trafficking but let him go.
It is now being reported that the person whom Abrego Garcia described as his “boss” at a construction job was Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes, an illegal migrant previously convicted of human smuggling. The black 2001 Chevrolet Suburban belonged to Hernandez Reyez.
One can reasonably object that there was no final adjudication of these claims from spousal abuse to human trafficking to gang membership. However, it strains credulity to claim that Abrego Garcia was living a “quiet” life in Maryland. The complaint of his wife that he was a wife-beater alone would seem to contradict NPR’s claim.
The claim has that certain “fiery but mostly peaceful” quality to it . . . except NPR just decided to leave out the “fiery” and the “mostly” parts.
This month I wrote about NPR repeating a false claim that the Supreme Court rejected the claim the government was involved in censorship — despite the express statement of the Court to the contrary.
NPR has long been accused of showing bias in its coverage. It is now facing calls to end the public subsidy for the news outlet.
Jonathan Turley is the author of best-selling book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
The American Founders restricted voting to individuals who were male, European, and 21 years old, with a net worth of 50 lbs. Sterling (~$13K today), resulting in an 11.6% turnout.
The American Founders understood that all issues were “decided” in the Constitution and Bill of Rights—which is the nature of fundamental law—and the vote was a secondary formality.
Communists allowed the slaves, women, and illegal aliens to vote.
Who will be in the next tranche, children?
Exactly how much flimflam, fraud, and deception will actual Americans succumb to before the nation is conclusively dispatched into confusion and chaos?
The communists not only intend to vote, they intend to “fundamentally transform” the population and Constitution of the United States of America.
They’re almost there.
Turley…all of these illegals that Biden allowed over the border from Mexico or that the senile old man flew into various cities around the country DID NOT BOTHER WITH DUE PROCESS on their way in and suddenly all you clowns want to give them due process on their way out? Baloney! They jumped the line to get in and now want to be at the end of the line going back out! SEND EVERY ILLEGAL OUT!
You’ll understand when they send all the illegal alien invaders ballots in the next election without requiring even the Real ID required to board an airliner.
Seeming to live peacefully is not a “get out of jail” card. Whitey Bulger was living peacefully in Santa Monica California for some 15 years until he was arrested. I suggest that we let NPR do NPR but without support from the public financial largess.
Jonathan: Seems the who purpose of your column is to justify the unlawful removal of Abrego Garcia to CECOT. You adopt the position of the DJT regime that even if they agreed to bring AG back he would still be deported again. You say “I cannot see any barrier to Abrego Garcia not only being deported but deported back to El Salvador”. Of course, the only “barrier” might be the rulings of all the courts, including the SC, that AG is entitled to the due process rights of notice and an opportunity to be heard.
At this very moment this case is playing out in Judge Zinis’s courtroom. She ordered 2 weeks of expedited discovery. Depositions of DJT officials are being conducted today. So far, the DOJ lawyers have been stonewalling the judge, refusing to provide any evidence to support their claims that AG is an MS-13 gang member. In a scathing order yesterday Zinis held that “the Defendants have failed to respond in good faith, and their refusal to do so can only be viewed as a willful and intentional non compliance.” That kind of language from a judge is almost unheard of and likely to result in contempt if the DOJ continues obfuscate and lie.
What boggles the mind is your defense of the DJT regime’s after the fact claims that AG is a domestic abuser and was stopped in Tennessee for a traffic violation. No charges were filed against AG for “human trafficking”. All these spurious claims are irrelevant to the basic question of whether removal of AG was justified under the AEA and he was denied the right to a hearing before a judge. AG’s due process rights were denied when ICE grabbed him out his car and shipped him off to CECOT.
There is no dispute that Abrego Garcia has not committed any crimes while residing in Maryland. Except for the one protective order by his wife, which she removed after they reconciled, she has steadfastly stood by her husband and demanded his return. For all intents and purposes AG has been “living quietly” in Maryland. AG may be no “choir boy” but that does not justify the virtual kidnapping by ICE. And there is nothing in your recitation that contradicts the NPR story.
From “9 News”, 3/25/2018–the audio of which is available for your listening pleasure:
“Trump was concerned the media would get hold of the records from his acrimonious divorce from his first wife Ivana in 1992.
“We got served from the New York Times… to unseal the divorce papers with Ivana,” Cohen is heard saying in a tape broadcast by CNN.
“We’re fighting it. (Marc) Kasowitz is going to…”
Trump cut off Cohen.
“They should never be able to get that,” Trump said.
“You have a woman that doesn’t want this.”
It is not known which woman Trump is referring to, possibly his ex-wife Ivana or his current wife Melania.
The New York Times and Gannett newspapers’ 2016 bid to make Trump’s divorce papers public was unsuccessful.
The lawsuit was knocked back by a New York court, ensuring the reasons behind the failure of Trump’s first marriage remain unknown.
What is indisputable however, is that in a sworn deposition in 1989, Ivana Trump accused her estranged husband of raping her.
Ms Trump detailed her husband, enraged by a painful operation to remove a bald spot, violently assaulting and raping her.
Ms Trump alleged the now-president ripped fistfuls of hair from her scalp during the attack.
In 1993 she retracted the use of the word “rape”.
“On one occasion during 1989, Mr. Trump and I had marital relations in which he behaved very differently toward me than he had during our marriage.
“As a woman, I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent. I referred to this as a ‘rape’, but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.”
When the story threatened to resurface in January 2016, Cohen vehemently denied it to The Daily Beast.”
A protective order is a CIVIL matter, not criminal. Turley accuses NPR of being “biased”? Really? Turley is the poster boy for bias–just like the MAGA media he represents–he tries to make the case that Garcia was NOT living a quiet life, but all he has is allegations and suspicions, and the civil PO that his wife got dissolved. Trump is an actual convicted felon. Abrego Garcia is not. Trump received due process–meaning a full jury trial–before he was convicted. The SCOTUS says Garcia and the others were entitled to this. Trump is resisting taking steps to even account for how this happened, much less “facilitate” his return.
Please provide a constitutional citation establishing a legal basis for the funding and existence of NPR.
Of course, you cannot.
@Dennis
Dennis, George, Gigi, ‘Anonymous’, Franke, and many randos who pop up depending on the topic: you aren’t convincing anyone, and you certainly aren’t fooling anyone. I know the DNC/globalist regime will never relent, but I will keep reiterating the point that your efforts are utterly wasted here. Really: we all have brains of our own and we don’t care.
And that is not exactly a fresh sentiment around here. Go blow. Nobody cares. Troll farms are like vacuums that suck up dollars and then light the on fire. You people (pro trolls) are preternaturally stupid, plain and simple. And that is me knowing full well you smoke a big bowl of yourself every morning. Pfft. You are not salient and you are not relevant. May you exist strictly on street corners with cardboard signs again.
James: you MAGAs do NOT speak for “us”–meaning most Americans, who increasingly have a negative opinion of Trump. Ivana’s statements were made UNDER OATH, in SWORN deposition testimony, during the pendency of her divorce from Donald after he fathered Tiffany with Marla Maples during their marriage. Right after Ivana’s deposition testimony was made public, Trump suddenly agreed to the property settlement and the divorce was finalized. She tried to soften her use of the word “rape” in describing his violent sexual behavior toward her, but she said “rape” under oath, subject to the penalties for perjury, along with a description of him pulling out hanks of her hair because she wasn’t sympathetic enough, in his opinion, to his post-operative pain following scalp reduction surgery to hide his baldness. Mr. Garcia was never accused of anything quite so violent.
And, you don’t have to believe me–I didn’t say these things–9 News did, and I did listen to the taped conversation between Michael Cohen and Trump–so can you. Pointing out facts that are in the public domain does not entitle you to call me a “troll” or any of your other personal attacks, nor does it make those facts untrue.
Spoken like a MAGA. So strange that while the center and left exhibits reasoned arguments the right implodes into a word bubble.
Turley– “I cannot see any barrier to Abrego Garcia not only being deported but deported back to El Salvador.”
Lawless federal judges taking over the executive might be a barrier you can see.
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The Executive does not have unlimited power under the US Constitution–the Courts are the final authority on the constitutionality of executive actions. A federal judge does have authority over Trump. As to Turley’s purchased opinion about seeing no “barrier” to Garcia’s deportation–he has the right to his day in court. If the Trump administration cannot prove any criminality, it loses, and is bound by any court ruling. The so-called “evidence” it has come up with is literally zilch–a disgraced Maryland police officer, relying on a confidential informant who claims he is a gang member proves nothing. The police officer’s testimony would not stand up in court–and Bondi knows it. MAGA media needs to stop lying about Trump having authority superior to that of the federal courts and insulting judges that rule against Trump, and Turley needs to stop stirring resentment against the judiciary.
Ruh, Ro!
Looks like all of the executive power shall be exclusively exercised by “a President of the United States of America.”
Looks like the Supreme Court has no executive power to exercise.
Oh, and, “Does the Constitution confer power on the Supreme Court to issue a writ?”
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“No, the Constitution itself does not explicitly [or otherwise] confer upon the Supreme Court the power to issue writs.”
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The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
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The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Determining the Constitutional rights of an arrestee is NOT an “executive action.” That determination belongs to the courts. A POTUS cannot issue an executive order that circumvents the Constitutional rights of someone who gets arrested. The Constitution says “all persons”. are entitled to due process. The government can’t simply arrest someone and send them directly to prison. So says the SCOTUS. Trump needs to stop resisting. MAGA media needs to stop stirring up resentment towards the judiciary.
I won’t mince words: NPR lied. Again. Straight up lying, and they know it, their producers are not that stupid. Defund them. If people still want to support them they are perfectly free to do so.
Activism used to be based on a cause, not personal and insane prejudice or the lust for power (as with Obama’s judges). Enough, already.
Obama’s judges? Do tell.
OT – Abrego Garcia and Other Monumental Lies – Building 7 Should Have Become the Number 1 Highrise Firefighting Case Study, It Didn’t
Did World Trade Center Building 7 really collapse due to an office fuel load fire?
Did the World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7) really completely collapse in freefall, symmetrically into its own footprint – in seven seconds – due to an office fuel load fire? I used to believe that – the official narrative, but now, I can no longer accept that explanation. For many of us, this is still a visceral and emotional subject, but it’s been 23 years since September 11, 2001. A lot of the strong sentiments have died down enough to objectively consider more reasonable, scientific, and physical (physics) explanations. WTC 7 was a 47-story steel highrise that stood at 610 ft. (190 m) and was clad in red granite masonry. WTC Tower 1 was the first tower hit by a jetliner at 8:46 a.m. and collapsed at 10:28 a.m. The collapsing debris of Tower 1 was claimed to have started the fire in WTC 7, which collapsed at 5:20 p.m., six hours and 52 minutes later. The Lower Manhattan highrise building was not hit by an airliner, and no firefighter lives were lost in that total collapse. So why has the American fire service been so reluctant to discuss this subject? Why isn’t this collapse, which according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), was caused by the fire from normal office fuel loads, the #1 case study in highrise firefighting history? It’s time to start asking the hard questions. I’ve yet to see a training class or article on this historic incident, nor have I seen any NFPA standards changed to address the implications of this catastrophic structural failure. Did you know that not a single Type I Fire Resistive highrise building has ever collapsed due to fire? Not one in the United States, or in North America, or anywhere else in the world – only WTC 7. I was unaware of this fact until it was brought to my attention by members of Protecting All Protectors Alliance (PAPA). If the magnitude of this event is considered in isolation, without distractions of its historical context – in other words, had it happened in any other building, in any other city, on any other date – it would be the #1 case study in highrise firefighting. Our strategy, tactics, and standards would have been reviewed and changed to incorporate the possibility of these types of buildings falling upon us – at freefall acceleration in as short a time as seven seconds – as WTC 7 did. It’s not that we haven’t had collapses in highrise buildings, we have. But they have primarily occurred during the construction phase of the building, or in portions of the building that were heavily damaged by a fire, but they have been localized collapses, area collapses, or partial collapses. We have never had a finished and occupied highrise building experience a complete global and freefall collapse within its own footprint due to fire (Image 4). I’d assert that this is a significant event which the fire service should revisit and objectively study until we come to agreement on the true cause of the collapse of WTC 7.
https://internationalfireandsafetyjournal.com/did-world-trade-center-building-7-really-collapse-due-to-an-office-fuel-load-fire/
So Abrego Garcia, an undocumented immigrant, was stopped with an expired license in a car with eight others and no luggage on a trip from Texas to Maryland.
Why is it so hard for Democrat lawyers – particularly Democrat lawyers whose occupation is working as law professors – to simply use the proper legal term for these criminals: ILLEGAL ALIENS?
Does it cause Democrat lawyers actual physical pain to use the correct language to refer to these criminals – just as SCOTUS has repeatedly done when referring to them in rulings
Professor Turley isn’t aware that immigrants are a class of people who first apply for immigration, pay the required fees, provide the required documentation, wait while their background, history, and medical condition is approved, and then arrive at our country with an immigration visa in hand, at a normal point of entry. I know that – but then again, I’m just a simpleton blue collar worker that went through the years of that for my wife to legally immigrant here when I came back to the USA.
Well, one sure way to advance the Democrat lawyer class’s political narrative is that these criminals AREN’T here illegally, they’re just kind of, you know: “undocumented”. And of course, the Mainstream Media approves and celebrates Professor Turley and other Democrats (lawyers or not) inventing and using his new language applied to criminal Illegal Aliens.
Democrat lawyers and Democrat Marxists in general know that one way to destroy the foundations of the republic is to change the language, then have others adopt those changes, in order to tear down the foundations of the republic and our civil society in order to replace it with something that helps them move towards the political hegemony that is their end game.
They WILL destroy the parts of the First Amendment that you value (as you see those parts of course) Professor Turley, eventually. And as Castro did in Cuba, along with you and everybody else who helped them ultimately achieve totalitarian power.
Dear Professor Turley: your fellow Democrat lawyers now wearing their black robes, conferring special Executive Branch transitional super powers, are certainly doing as much or more to shred the Constitution’s Separation Of Powers as they are of shredding your beloved First Amendment’s free speech clause!
You Democrat lawyers having used your positions in the Legislative Branch, the Judiciary, and the unelected bureaucracy to break it – can you suggest a way they can fix what they broke?
Or would you prefer to just politely opine on how they’ve erred in return for a paycheck?
Trial Lawyers are one of the biggest contributors to the Democrats Party.
Here’s how their money laundering operation works.
Joe Biden and his conspirators allow 30 million illegal aliens into our country to murder, rape, steal, flood the workforce, thereby lowering wages, and just overwhelming our hospitals, schools and social services.
Now the Democrats want to have due process in the courts. These criminals will then need court appointed lawyer$ to drag out the whole deportation process for years, racking up huge legal bills paid for the by the legal American citizen taxpayers and their yet unborn children and grandchildren.
The lawyer$ make a lot of money and contribute back to the Democrat Party. And that’s how the grift works!
The Democrats don’t care about America; they just want to stay in power and control the money.
Why are my tax dollars going to this garbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is why I ended my love affair with NPR ten years ago. They’d stopped considering all things.
I applaud your clever comment!!!
They really never did consider all things. So even their show name was a lie. I realized that in 1991 with their coverage of Desert Storm. It was all lies.
# Yes, NPRs time has passed. Defend unless they increase viewpoint and audit for foreign donors including laundry via NGOs. Least that can be done. Find out who’s funding the circus and make it public. They always include the list of donors but the list might be scrutinized. The bill and Hillary foundation type thing.
Ya, the taxpayers are poor. No public money.
I used to be a big supporter of NPR. I still listen to NPR but they definitely need to be defunded by Congress.
Some of their biases is enough to make you sick.
This is not so much about the Garcia case as it is about NPR’s bias and the abuse of our tax $$. DOGE ’em.
People On the Lam are always “living quietly” until they are caught.
Others who had been living quietly:
BTK serial killer, was a nice husband and a the local animal control officer.
Ice Man, mafia hit man and serial killer. A good family man. Law enforcement said Ice Man racked up about 74 murders.
During an interview in prison, Ice Man stated it was closer to 300 murders.
Any truth that Abrego Garcia was dressed as the Easter Bunny guiding President Biden around the White House lawn? There is no Democrat party any longer.
Defund NPR. Let them sink or swim on their own merits or lack there of.
Upstate, you are being mean. Let them swim with with a backpack full of bricks. 🙂
That backpack full of bricks is Article 1, Section 8, which allows Congress to tax only for debt, defense, and “general Welfare,” or basic infrastructure, and to regulate only the value of money, commerce among nations, states, and Indian tribes, and land and naval Forces.
Congress may neither tax for nor fund NPR.
Congress may neither regulate broadcast media nor infringe on freedom of the press.
Industries must self-regulate and most if not all enterprises and endeavors must be conducted in the free markets of the private sector.
Article 1, Section 8: Communists ignore it for obvious reasons and at their peril.
🙂
Allegations are just that, allegations, the “wife beating allegation” to me is nonsense, as is a quote ” confidential source”. I would never ever use a confidential source that hasn’t been cross-examined as a basis for removing someone from the country. I’m all for removing illegal aliens but you just can’t make allegations without factual support.
Then I’m curious, in a neutral way since I haven’t seen you on this site much/at all, about your take on the allegations of Hegseth’s second Signal chat, brought about by a single unidentified source from a R-hating shlock ‘news’ site.
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I prefer the many visible gsng-identifying tattoos as a better indication of the fact.
I prefer the many visible gsng-identifying tattoos as a better indication of the fact.
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Well, that would be all good and fine except a: 1) pot leaf; 2) smiley face,; 3) cross and 4) a skull are NOT “gang-identifying tattoos”. The MS-13 tattoo directly above the other 4 on his left hand were (apparently) photo shopped in, or it is “alleged” to be photo shopped in. Like I said, if you want to start deporting people who are unlawfully in the USA, I am down with that,, 100%. But give them a legit hearing with legit evidence. Not unproven, unverified “confidential source” BS.I cannot figure out why Trump doesn’t just bring Garcia BACK and do it the right way, not unproven third party hearsay and `rigged news conferences with what may be photo shopped pictures… Not a difficult task.
He’s gone. Move on.
EXACTLY! All the evidence against Garcia are conclusory. Not factual. It’s based on double hearsay and that’s the problem.
Except for the beating George.
Georgie’s word of the day: conclusory
George, Garcia’s wife made a written statement to the court stating that her husband had beaten her on two occasions. You know this George and yet you persist. True to character as always.
So Garcia is a wife beater but Trump isn’t a rapist? Oh wait Trump had his due process but it didn’t go so well. At least Trump is still out there grabbing them by their pussies.
weak deflection attempt. i award no points
EXACTLY! All the evidence against Garcia are conclusory. Not factual. It’s based on double hearsay and that’s the problem.
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Bingo, winner. 🏆🏆🏆⬆⬆⬆
The undisputed FACT is that he entered illegally and is subject to deportation. The reason for this being delayed is now gone. You may choose to discount the great amount of evidence that he is a gang memeber AND a wife beater but no immigration judge would do so.
This is absolutely correct. He had no right to be in the US. He could have been deported to any other country in the world and still could be, perhaps directly from El Salvador to, say, Panama. Or he could be brought back for an immediate hearing on the continuing validity of the protective order and then sent back to El Salvador when that comes out as expected. I don’t see the basis for sending him to a prison wherever he is deported, though. That should be up to the receiving country.
As a general rule, you can’t deport someone to a country of which he isn’t a citizen, because they’re not going to accept him. He has to be deported to El Salvador.
You may choose to discount the great amount of evidence that he is a gang memeber AND a wife beater but no immigration judge would do so.
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If you misstate the FACTS the rest of your comment goes straight out the window and into the trash.
Nope.
His so called wife put that on beating on paper ans signed it .
His so called wife put that on beating on paper ans signed it .
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The wife, and her written statement for the temp protective order, have never been subject to cross examination, which Garcia has a RIGHT to, because she failed to show up for the 2nd, and main/final hearing. Not enough under the law, for a full protective order, not enough for me (by itself, maybe with other more reliable evidence) to deport,
The “wife-beating allegation” was from the wife, and apparently enough evidence was provided that a judge issued a restraining order. Additionally, two different courts both determined he is a member of the MS13 terrorist organization.
I’m curious, what evidence would you accept?
The wife’s written court statements concerning the beatings have been made public. Guess you missed that one.
The wife’s written court statements concerning the beatings have been made public. Guess you missed that one.
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It was a “temporary” restraining/protective order. I take it you’re not familiar with restraining orders that are temporary in nature, they’re are given out automatically 99.9% of the time, you virtually need almost no evidence to secure one. I guess you missed that, or you don’t understand how this type of the law works, or you have never been involved with the civil legal system.
FBI is very confidential
In the first place, my understanding is that a judge had issued a protection order on the basis of the wife-beating claim by his wife. In the second place, judges have found significant evidence that he is in MS-13. (Notably, his wife covered over his hand in a picture she posted for a GoFundMe. Why did she do that, if his tattoos were innocent?) In the third place, if someone is an illegal alien, they are deportable, or should be. Period. They don’t need to have committed any crimes at all, beyond being in the country illegally. The fact that he is a deportable illegal alien was established beyond doubt long ago. Democratic judges are suddenly erecting new barriers to deportation.
Frankly, I’m surprised it took this long for Professor to comment on the Garcia case. Why only after NPR sings Garcia’s praises did he think a case that’s been bandied about for two weeks or more was finally worthy of discussion? Disappointed a time-sensitive legal blog took this long to weigh in, then pronounce only an eye-roll at the messenger (NPR). Come on professor, take the same stand you describe when talking about “mama bears”. Be less middle of the road-ish.
PT is addressing free speech. NPR is the subject.