The short answer, of course, is that he’s still in El Salvador. I speak of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the celebrated deportee, who was described by Democrats/media as just another hardworking suburban dad caught up in a bureaucratic nightmare.
Bill Melugin of Fox News posted an update on his Twitter (X) account this evening, He reports,
BREAKING: @Fox New has obtained the Tennessee Highway Patrol bodycam footage from when “Maryland Man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia was suspected of human trafficking during a traffic stop in 2022. “He’s hauling these people for money,” a trooper says.
Melugin continues,
8 people in the car. No luggage. No IDs. No proof of insurance. Vehicle belongs to a convicted human trafficker. Passenger stares straight ahead like a deer in the headlights. This looks exactly like the hundreds of @TXDPS human smuggling videos we’ve covered in recent years. ICE was called, but never picked him up.
Melugin points to a Fox News article that sits behind a paywall, but the video is viewable. Anyway, you get the idea: Garcia is not a regular suburban dad.
Garcia has gone from being the Current Thing and fashionable cause No. 1 to vanishing from the headlines.
I gather that the most recent batch of congresspeople to visit El Salvador have returned, despite vows not to come back without Garcia. But I haven’t found confirmation of that.
The related court cases will spin on forever, naturally, but the result won’t change.
