The demonization of Albrego Garcia. By Hal M. Brown
It takes some rudimentary photoshopping to make Albrego Garcia look like a real demon. Why not do this if you want to turn him into a truly bad guy? There are no bare chested photos of him with gang tattoos to publish. The best/worst Trump Trump could do was use a poorly rendered photoshop to show M, I, 1, and 3 on his knuckles.
Below is what Kristi $50,000 Watch Noem (read “The Watches of the Trump Administration”) had to say.
Read the HUFFPOST article which makes Garcia out to be a really bad guy article here.
Excerpt:
“Abrego Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador and should never have been in this country and will not be coming back to this country,” she told senators. “There is no scenario where Abrego Garcia will be in the United States again. If he were to come back, we would immediately deport him again.”
Noem said he doesn’t belong in the U.S. “because he is a terrorist, he’s a human smuggler and he is a wife-beater.” There is no evidence that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist, and he was never arrested on or charged with human smuggling. It is true, though, that his wife filed a protective order petition against him in 2021, alleging he had physically attacked her on multiple occasions.
Kristi Noem is not a lawyer. Even so, she has a bachelors degree in political science. This should be enough for her to understand due process. Irregardless of this, she shouldn't be throwing out unsubstantiated accusations about Abrego Garcia. Of the three crimes she’s accused him of, only one has any evidence to suggest it is true. That would be her saying he’s a wife beater. Even on this he was never convicted in court. His wife filled a protective petition alleging he pshycially attacked her.
A Trump executive order designated MS-13 as a foreign terrorist organization. This hides the fact that the gang originated in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Their members largely join out of economic need, self-defense, or social pressure—not ideology. Trump’s executive order says the following:
….transnational organizations, such as Tren de Aragua (TdA) and La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) pose similar threats to the United States (as drug cartels). Their campaigns of violence and terror in the United States and internationally are extraordinarily violent, vicious, and similarly threaten the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere.
It is the policy of the United States to ensure the total elimination of these organizations’ presence in the United States and their ability to threaten the territory, safety, and security of the United States through their extraterritorial command-and-control structures, thereby protecting the American people and the territorial integrity of the United States.
You can’t have it both ways. Either each and every person who joins a gang is a criminal or some may be in the gang but have never committed an act of violence, let alone jumped a turnstyle at a subway station.
This seem to harken back to the bad old Joe McCarthy Communist Party demonization and witchhunt days when either being an actual member of the party, being sympathetic to the party, or having any association with it made one a target. At least McCarthy never tried to get those he deemed party members or sympathizers deported to a hellhole overseas prison.
The United States still doesn’t deport people who are legally residing here because they’ve committed crimes. If Garcia is to be deported it must be because a court determines he is here illegally. McCarthy called them un-American. He never said they were terrorists. Not a single person who appeared before McCarthy's committee went to jail for accusations McCarthy brought against them (reference).
There’s this idea that Noem, her boss, and others are promoting that anyone here who they say, with no evidence, is a vicious criminal can be denied their day in court - a now quaint and irrelevant notion - and be sent to prison here or in another country. This is a country that sometimes seemingly is selected by throwing darts at a world map.
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It would have appropriate to blow out the topic by discussing due process. After all, if this evil administration can do it to one, they can do it to all. This IMHO needs to the argument worth making.