Salvadoran citizen and “Maryland man” Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has become the Joan of Arc of the American Left—their poster child for opposing President Donald Trump’s campaign of enforcing immigration laws. Why?

At first glance, Abrego Garcia seems a lousy pick. Two immigration judges found it credible that he was a member of MS-13, the vicious Salvadoran gang. Indeed, when he finally got around to claiming protection against deportation, a decade after arriving, one of his arguments was that he feared persecution by a rival gang.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, Abrego Garcia’s wife filed for a restraining order against him for domestic violence—twice. Then in November 2022, paragon “Maryland Dad” Abrego Garcia was caught speeding, without a valid driver’s license, by Tennessee state police. They looked inside his van, with tinted windows, and saw what they thought were nine illegal alien men.

The logical inference was that Abrego Garcia was being paid to smuggle them from the border to Maryland, where they’d no doubt work illegally. The cops let him go and cut bait. They probably knew that if they called U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in that Joe Biden era of open borders and mass illegal migration, no one would come.

Even without the criminal allegations, Abrego Garcia would hardly be a model........

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