Border czar Tom Homan reminded Democrats Thursday that MS-13 gang members are disproportionately harming immigrant communities they claim to want to protect.
Democrats have continued to show support for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gang member who entered the U.S. illegally in 2011, with a few even traveling to El Salvador in retaliation to President Donald Trump’s administration. Homan said on Fox News’ “America Reports” that Democrats are choosing to ignore the heinous, inhuman crimes committed by members of Tren de Agua (TdA) and MS-13 against U.S. citizens and immigration communities.
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“I knew that [on] day one of the inauguration that we’re gonna be fighting the courts and we’ll be fighting the Democrats, we’d be fighting the NGOs, the activists, we knew the fight was coming and we’re gonna take that fight on,” Homan said. “But you know one thing I know that they don’t, all the ones yelling about this? I’ve seen, in 40 years, what MS-13 and TdA are capable of. I’ve seen the horrific things they have done not only to American citizens, but aliens that live here. I’ve seen their capability. They are animals. I can’t even compare it to animals, animals kill to survive, MS-13 and TdA kill for pleasure, to instill fear not only in American community, they put fear in the immigrant community. That’s who they attack the most. The migrant community.”
MS-13 and TdA are notorious for committing heinous and violent acts against Americans and other individuals, including beheadings and dismemberments. In November 2017, about ten suspects of MS-13 beheaded a man and ripped his heart out after stabbing him more than 100 times in Wheaton, Maryland, Sky News reported.
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The two Venezuelan nationals who killed 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston, Texas, were said to be members of TdA. The men strangled the child to death and dumped her body in a nearby river.
Four Democrat lawmakers, including Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost, traveled to El Salvador to visit Garcia, though their visitation was denied by El Salvadoran officials. Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen flew to El Salvador and sat down with Garcia in what appeared to be a restaurant.
Democrats have accused the Trump administration of deporting Garcia without due process since the deportation was a clerical error, though administration officials have maintained that he should remain in El Salvador. Democrat Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar cursed at Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Myles Morell Thursday for simply asking if she believes Democrats should continue traveling to El Salvador.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama-appointed judge, ordered the administration to quickly effectuate Garcia’s return to the U.S., which the administration challenged. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily blocked the judge’s order in an April 7 ruling, stating that the U.S. cannot “compel El Salvador to follow a federal judge’s bidding.”
The U.S. Supreme Court later ruled in April that the administration must “facilitate” the return of Garcia. El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said on April 14 that he will not “smuggle” Garcia back into the U.S.
Police records and court documents indicate that Garcia smuggled people into the U.S., had a good standing with MS-13 and physically abused his wife.
In 2019, an immigration judge issued a deportation order for Garcia, who illegally entered the U.S. in 2011 from El Salvador, according to court documents. A judge gave Garcia a protected status known as “withholding of removal” in October 2019 after determining that he would likely be persecuted by gangs if deported back to El Salvador.
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First published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
