Kilmar Abrego Garcia's days in the US may be numbered after court's latest ruling



Months after the high-profile deportation case of an alleged MS-13 associate began with a removal and then mandated return to the United States, a judge has denied the request to stay Kilmar Abrego Garcia's final deportation from the country.

In a copy of the decision obtained by ABC News, Regional Deputy Chief Immigration Judge Philip Taylor denied an emergency request from Garcia's attorneys to reopen his case. The petition, filed in August, argued that Garcia's removal from the U.S. followed by his return subsequently made him eligible to apply for asylum in the U.S.

'This MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, domestic abuser, and child predator will never be loose on American streets.'

However, Judge Taylor argued in his denial to stay the removal on Wednesday that Garcia's application for asylum would be "untimely," considering that Garcia's original immigration proceedings began nearly six years ago.

A large part of the long-running deportation case hangs on the Trump administration's charge that Garcia is affiliated with the violent gang MS-13. His attorneys have delayed his deportation for fear of persecution tied to these accusations, which Garcia and his attorneys deny.

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The prosecution has also indicated that the Department of Homeland Security "may" deport Garcia to another country such as Uganda or Eswatini.

However, Judge Taylor argued that the defense's argument about possible persecution in these countries was ultimately insubstantial.

"The word 'may' is permissive and indicates to the Court that in sending this notification to Respondent's counsel, the Department sought to convey that it reserved the right to remove him to Uganda, not necessarily that it intended to do so, that it had decided to do so, or that it would do so imminently," Judge Taylor said, according to ABC News.

"This MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, domestic abuser, and child predator will never be loose on American streets," the DHS said in an X post on Wednesday evening. "His lawyers tried to fight his removal from the U.S. but one thing is certain, this Salvadoran man is not going to be able to remain in our country. He will never be allowed to prey on innocent Americans again."

The Kilmar Abrego Garcia saga has stretched to this day since he was deported in March. He was then brought back to the United States to face human-trafficking charges in June.

The government shutdown, which began on the same day as this order, will delay deadlines for the case "by the total number of days of the lapse in appropriations," as noted by the DOJ in the court document.

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American jobs first: Hefty new H-1B visa fee will likely curb legal immigration, especially from India



As immigration detention centers sprout up over the country and deportations continue, the Trump administration is setting its sights on another important immigration issue: H-1B visas.

According to a Bloomberg report, Trump plans to sign a proclamation as early as Friday that would overhaul the H-1B visa program, one of the most heavily exploited visa programs in the government.

155,205 out of 189,404 H-1B cases originated from India.

Citing a White House official, the report details that the proclamation would add a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications. The official added that the proclamation would restrict entry under the H-1B program unless accompanied by the payment.

The H-1B visa program has famously been known to pull heavily from India and is exploited disproportionately in the technology sector of the economy. The official stated that the proclamation would be in place in order to stop the flow of H-1B workers, who have undercut the American worker.

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According to available government data from roughly the past five years, 155,205 out of 189,404 H-1B cases originated from India. China came in second place at 28,969 visas.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the report on X, posting a link to the Bloomberg article with its headline, "Trump to Add New $100,000 Fee for H-1B Visas in Latest Crackdown," as the caption.

Fees directly tied to the H-1B visa application are, per Bloomberg, rather "modest." The fee to register for the lottery is just $215, and while other fees can sometimes bring the total to as much as $10,000, those costs are almost always borne by the employer.

In tandem with the proclamation, Trump is expected to order Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer to further overhaul the visa program to root out fraud and abuse in the current system.

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DHS gives stern warning after foreign-born sex felon who recently worked for Walz's Minnesota nabbed by ICE



The Department of Homeland Security has issued a stern warning after a foreign-born sex offender in Minnesota who recently worked for the state Department of Education was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Earlier this summer, news broke that Wilson Tindi, a 43-year-old native of Kenya, was working as the director of the Internal Audit and Advisory Services division of the Minnesota Department of Education despite pleading guilty to felony criminal sexual conduct in 2015.

'It is a privilege to be granted a green card to live in the United States of America.'

In June, just three months ago, Tindi was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence and refusing a field sobriety test. He has been charged with three misdemeanors.

Within hours of the initial report from Alpha News about Tindi's troubling history, Blaze News learned Tindi was no longer employed at MDE.

Now Tindi is back in the news for yet another arrest — this time by immigration officers.

Though the date of his arrest is unclear, Alpha News reported on Monday that members of ICE and other law enforcement agencies arrested Tindi at his residence in Plymouth, Minnesota, just outside the Twin Cities. Tindi did not seem surprised to see the officers — according to reporter Liz Collin, who rode along with St. Paul ICE field director Sam Olson — and was placed in handcuffs in his garage, standing next to his BMW.

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Footage of the arrest shows that Tindi was afterward processed in a detention center, but the status of his case remains unclear. A major complication with the case is that Tindi is not in the U.S. illegally. He became a lawful permanent resident in 2014, even though he reportedly overstayed the six-month visa issued to him in 2005, had a previous application for permanent residency denied, and later spent 18 months in ICE custody following his aggravated felony conviction.

"We really have to go through, work with our legal team to make sure that the conviction would qualify for removability from the U.S. So it did take us kind of a long time and a lot of research with help from our legal team, who are amazing. We did come up with [an] immigration charge because of his criminality," Olson told Collin. "We do have a warrant of arrest for him."

"We’re law enforcement officers, here to get the worst of the worst off of the streets and back to their country," he added.

Whether Tindi is slated for deportation is unclear. A search of his information in the ICE detainee database did not yield any results.

Tindi and the office of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (DFL), who oversees the two state departments that employed Tindi, did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

In addition to deporting those who broke the law to enter the U.S., it seems DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and the rest of the Trump administration are taking a stand against foreign-born legal residents who commit non-immigration crimes while they are here.

"It is a privilege to be granted a green card to live in the United States of America. When you break our laws, that privilege should be revoked, and you should not be in this country," Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to Blaze News.

"President Trump and Secretary Noem have been clear: Criminal aliens are not welcome in the United States."

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MS-13 associate Kilmar Abrego Garcia urges Obama judge to silence DHS, DOJ officials



U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested MS-13 associate Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Monday and set the stage for his deportation to Uganda.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement to Blaze News, "President Trump is not going to allow this illegal alien, who is an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator, to terrorize American citizens any longer."

'The media's sympathetic narrative about this criminal illegal alien has completely fallen apart.'

But Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland — a judge former President Barack Obama nominated — swiftly intervened to prevent the removal of the Salvadoran national. Xinis told the Trump administration it was "absolutely forbidden" from deporting Garcia, then issued a temporary restraining order to this effect.

On Thursday, the MS-13 associate asked a different Obama judge to prevent Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and all of the officials in their respective agencies from discussing his sordid history.

"Since Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was released from pretrial custody last Friday, officials from the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security — and even the White House — have attacked Mr. Abrego in the media in numerous highly prejudicial, inflammatory, and false statements," Garcia's attorneys noted in the request to U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw, an Obama-nominated judge who sought Abrego's release in July.

Garcia and his legal team were especially prickled by the suggestion that he is "a known MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, wife beater, and child predator."

While Garcia's attorneys complained that such claims were "baseless," it's clear the Trump administration did not create the allegations out of whole cloth.

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Justice Department attorneys indicated earlier this year that in March 2019, Garcia was summoned to appear in removal proceedings. During a bond hearing, ICE stated that a confidential informant flagged Garcia as an active member of MS-13. The illegal alien's bond was denied with the court reportedly finding "that Abrego Garcia was a danger to the community."

When Garcia appealed that decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals, an immigration judge determined in April 2019 that "the determination that the Respondent is a gang member appears to be trustworthy and is supported by other evidence in the record."

As with Garcia's MS-13 link, the domestic abuser claim also did not appear out of thin air.

Garcia's wife, Jennifer Vasquez, sought domestic violence protective orders against him in 2020 and 2021. Vasquez alleged in her 2021 protective order petition that Garcia punched her, ripped off her shirt, and both scratched and bruised her.

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The human trafficking allegation that Garcia wants DHS and DOJ officials to refrain from publicly mentioning is fleshed out in his federal grand jury indictment which accuses him of conspiracy to transport aliens and unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens.

The indictment alleges that Garcia conspired to bring illegal aliens — adults and children alike — into the U.S. from countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador, and elsewhere from 2016 until this year. He allegedly made over 100 trips over the course of this alleged human smuggling campaign.

"Over the course of the conspiracy, the co-conspirators knowingly and unlawfully transported thousands of undocumented aliens who had no known authorization to be present in the United States, and many of whom were MS-13 member and associates," said the indictment.

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As for the "child predator" allegation, Bondi told reporters in June that one of Garcia's alleged co-conspirators claimed that he not only "abused undocumented alien females" who were "under his control while transporting them throughout our country" but allegedly "solicited nude photographs and videos of a minor."

Bondi, Noem, and the White House's repeated references to these and other skeletons in Garcia's closet evidently infuriated him, but Garcia's attorneys said in their Thursday request that the "pièce de resistance" was the DHS' repost of this White House meme:

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Garcia's attorneys claimed in the request that "if the government is allowed to continue in this way, it will taint any conceivable jury pool by exposing the entire country to irrelevant, prejudicial, and false claims about Mr. Abrego."

His attorneys asked for a gag order prohibiting all DHS and DOJ officials involved in Garcia's case — and all officials in their supervisory chain — "from making extrajudicial comments that pose a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing this proceeding."

A DHS official told the Hill, "If Kilmar Abrego Garcia did not want to be mentioned by the Secretary of Homeland Security, then he should have not entered our country illegally and committed heinous crimes."

The DHS official continued, "Once again, the media is falling all over themselves to defend this criminal illegal MS-13 gang member who is an alleged human trafficker, domestic abuser, and child predator. The media's sympathetic narrative about this criminal illegal alien has completely fallen apart, yet they continue to peddle his sob story."

The Hill indicated that the DOJ declined to comment.

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ICE just arrested Democrats' favorite MS-13 associate — and now he's getting the boot for good



MS-13 associate Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a Salvadoran national credibly accused of human trafficking, domestic abuse, and posing a danger to the community — was deported back to his home country earlier this year, where he was housed in a prison for terrorists.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (Md.) and Reps. Robert Garcia (Calif.), Maxwell Frost (Fla.), Yassamin Ansari (Ariz.), and Maxine Dexter (Ore.) were among the Democrats who complained about the MS-13 associate's ouster and imprisonment and demanded his return.

'Remember that I am free, and I was able to be reunited with my family.'

Democrats technically got what they wanted, but Garcia's story did not ultimately play out as they may have hoped.

Garcia was brought back to the U.S. to face criminal charges over his involvement in an alleged multistate human trafficking operation, then temporarily held at the Putnam County Jail in Tennessee.

Abrego Garcia's lawyer, Sean Hecker, told WZTV-TV on Friday that Garcia was free, "presently en route to his family in Maryland, after being unlawfully arrested and deported and then imprisoned, all because of the government's vindictive attack on a man who had the courage to fight back against the administration's continuing assault on the rule of law."

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Blaze News that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has cut short the MS-13 associate's time with his family.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement to Blaze News, "Today, ICE law enforcement arrested Kilmar Abrego Garcia and are processing him for deportation."

"President Trump is not going to allow this illegal alien, who is an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator, to terrorize American citizens any longer," added Noem.

Before surrendering to ICE in Baltimore on Monday, Garcia told supporters, "Brothers and sisters, my name is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and I want you to remember this: Remember that I am free, and I was able to be reunited with my family."

Immigration officials reportedly offered to send Garcia packing to Costa Rica if he pleaded guilty to the human smuggling charges. Since he apparently chose not to take the deal, he will apparently be deported to Uganda.

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