Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not a sympathetic poster child by any reasonable standard. But the media’s sudden outrage over his deportation reveals more about its cynicism than any concern for due process.

Garcia, a Salvadoran national deported last month and now detained in El Salvador’s terrorism confinement center—CECOT—is being recast by CNN and its ideological allies as a victim of Trump-era cruelty. The media minders tell us he is a Maryland husband, a devoted father, and a community fixture.

Omitted from the headlines? Federal authorities have alleged links between Garcia and MS-13—the brutal cartel infamous for machete murders, child trafficking, prostitution, and transnational violence.

That’s not a minor footnote. Yet CNN, in its April 1 report, seems far more concerned that the Trump administration refused to provide evidence to the press than with the possibility that a violent gang member was living comfortably in suburban Maryland.

Their indignation boils down to this: the Trump administration didn’t send over a dossier of classified intelligence and investigation reports for CNN’s legal analyst to comb through on live TV—then dismiss as woefully insufficient, no matter how comprehensive it is.

And CNN is not alone in inserting this refrain into the teleprompter or the story. It’s become an incessant chorus across the legacy media whenever Trump-era immigration enforcement is........

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