Border Patrol Chief Gives Update On When Feds Can Finally Deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Chief Border Patrol Agent Greg Bovino told Fox News host Jesse Watters Friday that adjudicated MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia would be removed from the United States as soon as “he becomes deportable.”

United States District Judge Paula Xinis of the District of Maryland, an Obama appointee, ordered the Trump administration to release Garcia, claiming he was “held in ICE detention to effectuate third-country removal absent a lawful removal order.” Bovino told “Jesse Watters Primetime” host Jesse Watters that ICE would work to put Garcia and other illegal immigrants “where they need to be.” (RELATED: Rainbow-Clad Female Reverend Compares ICE Supporters To Judas)

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“Once he becomes deportable, for the second time, remember, he was deportable the first time and actually got deported,” Bovino told Watters. “When he becomes deportable the second time, we’re going to deport this individual. It’s too bad that we have these activist judges that legislate from the bench and put MS-13 gang members back out on the streets to harm Americans. That’s what we’re doing in these American cities, taking individuals like this ‘Maryland dad’ out of circulation and putting them back where they need to be, and that’s in their country of record.”

Garcia is currently under indictment for human trafficking charges in Tennessee and had initially been deported to El Salvador, where he was held in a high-security prison used to jail MS-13 members, leading Democrats to take up his cause and demand his return to the United States. A 13-page dossier detailing the evidence against Garcia was released by the Trump administration in April, including findings from immigration judges that he was a member of MS-13.

MS-13 is an El Salvadoran prison gang designated a foreign terrorist organization by President Donald Trump.

Abrego Garcia was detained in 2022 by the Tennessee Highway Patrol on suspicion of human trafficking but was released at the behest of the Biden administration FBI, according to the Tennessee Star.

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