While NBC, CBS, ABC and AP repeatedly sell Americans on Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the “Maryland man” they say was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, The Hill finally got it right when they quoted Attorney General Pam Bondi who said, “He’s not a Maryland man.” In fact, Garcia is a Salvadoran who illegally entered the United States in 2011. Besides breaking U.S. laws concerning immigration, Garcia appears to be an MS-13 gang member.

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order to designate cartels and other criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs). Moving in response, Secretary of State Marco Rubio published in the Federal Register that there’s “sufficient factual basis” under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to designate eight groups as FTOs.  The groups are: Tren de Aragua (TdA), MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha), the Sinaloa Cartel, New Generation Cartel of Jalisco, United Cartels, Northeast Cartel, Gulf Cartel, and La Nueva Familia Michoacana. This designation gives the government the ability to target these groups from every angle.  The State Department’s order states that these groups “present an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States,” and invokes the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEP) to declare a national emergency to “deal with those threats.” Continuing, the order states, “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.”

Joseph Humire, executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society stated, “Trump just put them all on notice.  We know you’re here; we know you are up to no good, and........

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