Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday said Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador, is “not a Maryland man.”

Abrego Garcia, who is Salvadoran, illegally immigrated to the U.S. in 2011 as a teenager, but was given a "withholding of removal" status in 2019, having argued that he faced threats to his life from gang violence in his home country. He was a married father of three who worked as a sheet metal apprentice.

Bondi said on Fox News’s “Jesse Watters Primetime" Monday night that none of that made Abrego Garcia a "Maryland man," as he has often been called in media reports.

“Jesse, you know, when you're listening to all these liberal........

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