The deported El Salvadoran migrant now being defended by Democrats was arrested with “rolls of cash and drugs” according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), backing up prior court findings that he is a member of the violent gang MS-13.
Shooting back at left-wing sympathy for Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, the 29-year-old illegal migrant who was arrested and deported back to El Salvador from Maryland in March, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the evidence points to him being part of the gang:
McLaughlin also took to the media to say that Abrego-Garcia is back home where he belongs, destroying the Democrats’ “innocent Maryland father” message:
“I think that this illegal alien is exactly where he belongs, home in El Salvador,” the DHS spokeswoman said during an appearance on Fox News. “He was in our country illegally, he’s from El Salvador, was born in El Salvador, and oh, the media forgot to mention — he is an MS-13 gang member.”
“The media would love for you to believe that this is a media darling, that he’s just some Maryland father. Osama Bin Laden was also a father, and yet he wasn’t a good guy,” McLaughlin continued. “And they actually are both terrorists. He should be in this El Salvador prison, prison for terrorists, and I hope he will remain there.”
She also thanked El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele for holding Abrego-Garcia in the country’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).
In a separate appearance on ABC News, McLaughlin said she is “glad” that the “member of MS-13” is off the streets:
