It’s time to set the record straight about the “Maryland Man”….
You know who I’m talking about….
The husband!
The father!
The upstanding citizen just trying to live his life in Maryland and then the heartless Trump Administration snatched him up and shipped him off to El Salvador! The horror!
Except….none of that is true.
It’s just one more attempt by the Lying MSM to spin something to 180 degrees opposite of the truth.
Good thing you have us to set the record straight.
Number one: MANY sources have quite clearly labeled him as an active member of MS-13:
🚨 #BREAKING: The Trump DOJ has just released documents from Homeland Security labeling the man deported to El Salvador as MS-13
“Subject has been identified as a Member/Active of MS-13”
Even the Prince George’s County, Maryland gang unit VALIDATED him as MS-13. pic.twitter.com/W4F3P7zn1J
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 16, 2025
He has a horrible history of violence and alleged abuse of his wife:
MARYLAND MAN HOAX, WIFE HAS RESTRAINING ORDERS ON HIM
SHE DOESNT WANT HIM HOME, SHE JUST WANTS GOFUNDME DONATIONS pic.twitter.com/t67RjKrRpG
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) April 16, 2025
And if Jack Posobiec isn’t a good enough source for you, how about the Dept. of Homeland Security?
Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a history of violence and was not the upstanding “Maryland Man” the media has portrayed him as.
According to court filings, Garcia’s wife sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, claiming he punched, scratched, and ripped off her shirt,… pic.twitter.com/FpSV0k3i90
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) April 16, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a history of violence and was not the upstanding “Maryland Man” the media has portrayed him as.
According to court filings, Garcia’s wife sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, claiming he punched, scratched, and ripped off her shirt, among other harm.
This MS-13 gang member is not a sympathetic figure.
My friends over at The Gateway Pundit had a fantastic analysis of the “Maryland Man” and I want to show you a portion of that:
The media has completely misrepresented this case, sparking outrage among liberals who claim the man is a victim. They keep referring to him as “a Maryland man,” implying that he is a U.S. citizen. But he is not.
He was a U.S. resident who happened to be living in Maryland. In reality, he is a citizen of El Salvador who entered the United States in 2011 at the age of 16.
In most cases, the U.S. deports individuals to their country of citizenship or, if that’s not possible, to the last country they resided in before entering the U.S. which both instances is El Salvador.
Kilmar Abrego García was deported from the United States to El Salvador on March 15, 2025, after his affiliation with MS-13 was found to violate the terms of his U.S. residency.
ADVERTISEMENTThe evidence cited by U.S. authorities stemmed from a 2019 immigration judge’s finding that García was affiliated with the MS-13 gang—a conclusion based on information provided by a confidential informant. The judge ruled that the informant’s testimony was sufficient to deny García’s bond request.
This immigration judge denied García’s asylum request because he did not file within one year of arriving in the United States, as required by U.S. immigration law.
However, the judge granted him “withholding of removal,” a narrower form of protection that prevented his deportation to El Salvador due to a credible fear of persecution from another gang. This status allowed him to live and work legally in the U.S. but did not provide a path to permanent residency or citizenship, unlike asylum.
In addition to being a violent transnational criminal organization, MS-13 was officially designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the United States in 2025. As a result, García is now classified as a terrorist, further invalidating his legal right to remain in the country.
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) explicitly states that applicants are ineligible for “withholding of removal” if there are reasonable grounds to believe they have committed serious nonpolitical crimes or are a danger to the security of the United States, including through terrorism.
News outlets argue that Kilmar Abrego García should not have been deported because he was never charged with a crime. However, no criminal offense is necessary.
Gang affiliation—particularly with a violent transnational criminal or terrorist organization—is sufficient legal justification for deportation.
Under U.S. immigration law, lawful permanent residents can be removed from the country if they are determined to pose a threat to public safety or the national interest, even without a criminal conviction.
The media have repeatedly reported that García and his family deny any affiliation with MS-13.
However, there is ample reason to believe that individuals facing deportation—and their families—often deny wrongdoing in an effort to avoid consequences.
Trending: Democrat Sen Chris Van Hollen Suffers Humiliating Rejection After Flying to El Salvador to Meet with Alleged MS-13 Gang Member Abrego Garcia (VIDEO)
Another point frequently raised by the media is that no criminal charges have been filed against him. While this is technically true, U.S. immigration law does not require criminal charges to revoke a visa or lawful residency.
ADVERTISEMENTGang affiliation alone is grounds for removal, regardless of whether a conviction has occurred. The media also claim that García was not given a trial or hearing, but under U.S. law, a full trial is not required to invalidate residency and deport someone in cases involving immigration violations.
After his deportation, Kilmar Abrego García was sent to El Salvador’s high-security Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), consistent with Salvadoran law, which permits detention of individuals linked to designated terrorist groups.
Since MS-13 was declared a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the U.S. in 2025, Salvadoran authorities treated his affiliation accordingly.
President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gangs has transformed El Salvador from one of the world’s most violent countries, with a homicide rate of over 100 per 100,000 in 2015, to one of the safest in Latin America, with a rate of just 2.4 per 100,000 in 2023.
On April 10, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling directing the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego García to the United States.
The Court’s decision followed the administration’s admission that García’s deportation to El Salvador had been an “administrative error” and violated a 2019 court order that specifically barred his removal to that country due to credible threats from gangs.
And I want to end with an absolutely HILARIOUS (but also informative) segment from Glenn Beck breaking this all down.
For the visual learners out there or those who prefer to watch/listen, I’ve got you covered.
The beginning with Stu absolutely cracks me up! Stu is the best straight-man sidekick on any show, better than Andy Richter!
Please enjoy:
FULL TRANSCRIPT:
Stu:
So Stu help me out on the—on the Maryland man, uh, because, uh, you’re talking about the Maryland father. The Maryland father. The Maryland father.ADVERTISEMENTWhy didn’t you include that he’s a father? You have to include that he’s a father. He’s a father.
And he’s an immigrant. You know, he’s an immigrant.
A husband.
Glenn:
And a husband, okay, thank you. Well, there are some things, uh, that, uh, we know and some things that we don’t know.You know, the media will—you know, for instance, uh, his wife swore out a—you know, a… uh, uh, protection order against him. You know, but—but only a couple of—you know, only a couple of them, uh, you know, because, uh, he was apparently beating her.
But you know, that needs some— that, you know, that’s—that’s without any nuance. I don’t know, do you need nuance with the, you know, the domestic abuse thing?
Stu:
Not really, no.Glenn:
No, I—I—I really don’t. You know, the one thing that, you know, you—I don’t know. I don’t know.We know that he entered the U.S. illegally. We don’t know when he entered. Yeah, there’s some—there’s some reports between 2011 and 2014. Some places are reporting both numbers.
Correct.
He—we know that he was working as a roofer.
Okay. We know that in 2019 he faced deportation proceedings in Baltimore but was granted a withholding of removal order. So he couldn’t be deported to El Salvador.
The MS-13 affiliation—that’s unproven. It is based on some evidence, but weak.
You know, unless you believe the informant. I mean, we had to believe every single whistleblower under Biden. But this one? No. No, this one, no.
They’ve released some documents too that—that are—that basically say that he is, or was, an MS-13. I mean those are the—of course—essentially the accusations, right?
They come from the police. These are the, uh—these are their observations of him.
You know, that doesn’t mean it went through—it was proven in a court of law or anything, but it was—this is what they believed.
They believed they had—he was arrested, I believe, one time with someone who was a known MS-13 member.
Stu:
That happens to all of us.Glenn:
Yeah, I mean it happens to me all the time. You know, I was like—yeah he—go—yeah, but he’s a good guy. I mean we—we bowl every Tuesday night.You know, like I got a couples massage the other day with a known MS-13 member, and I’m in MS-13, right?
Stu:
For a couple.ADVERTISEMENTGlenn:
Well, I mean, the—the price is—you get a discount. You get a discount, you know.So it has nothing to do with—I mean, I’m just—I mean, it is—it is unlikely—like I—it’s not impossible, right?
But unlikely that he was not affiliated with these—they don’t—I will say though, they don’t have like the—the greatest evidence of all time on this. This is not like an open-and-shut “we definitely know.”
I would say it’s more likely than not.
And again, the standard here when you are an illegal immigrant is—you don’t get all the constitutional protections, right?
Like, you’re an illegal immigrant. And we do know for certain—this is something that he has admitted—he—he crossed into the country illegally, which is a crime. That we know.
He has admitted to it. And there’s no disagreement on whether he should have been really deported or not.
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Glenn:
Now, of course, the family is saying all sorts of things. His defenders are saying some stuff. But like, there’s no question that he could have been deported.ADVERTISEMENTThe question was whether he should have been deported to El Salvador or not.
Stu:
Yeah, and well, he’s from El Salvador, so I guess he could, you know, work that out, you know, in El Salvador.When Trump was president, they went through a hearing and said he shouldn’t be deported to El Salvador.
Now, I believe that this was based on this guy lying a lot and saying that his mother’s papoosea stand was being harassed.
Glenn:
Yes, it was being harassed. She was being harassed back in 2011.A papoosea—isn’t that what they—what Native Americans carry their baby in? Like a papoosea stand or something?
Stu:
That’s a papoose.Glenn:
Oh, that’s a papoose. What’s a papoosea?Stu:
I guess it is a thick—Glenn:
Wow, don’t cry—don’t—don’t cross those sculptures. It could get very dicey quickly.Stu:
Sorry, mistranslation.Glenn:
Yeah, I missed the baby. I was eating the baby.Wow, sorry about that.
It’s just like when you mess up hummus and Hamas. Like there’s only one letter but there’s a lot going on there.
Stu:
It’s a big difference. A couple letters.Glenn:
Okay, so a papoosea is a thick grilled or fried tortilla from El Salvador, typically made with cornmeal or rice flour and stuffed with various fillings like beans, cheese, or pork.Stu:
Don’t really need to know all of this.Glenn:
That was the best part of the story. What are you talking about?Stu:
It kind of sounds interesting.Glenn:
Okay, so she—her papoosea stand was being harassed by a local gang. Again, this is his telling.And, uh, they were threatening to kill this guy. He left and he believes if he goes back to El Salvador they’re going to kill him.
Now, of course, the papoosea stand is not even open anymore. It doesn’t even exist.
Stu:
Yeah, so they’re probably not carrying that grudge.Glenn:
Weird grudge to carry over all these years. “That damn papoosea stand still bothers me. I’ve been retired for 10 years but it still bothers me to this day.”Let me, uh, let me ask you—if—if he was—because he claimed that he had, you know, he was here for asylum. But he never claimed asylum until they arrested him.
Then—then they were—he was like, “Ah, have you heard the story of the papoosea?”
Right, so to—it sounds awfully fishy to me. And I—if I were the immigration judge, I would—and probably not have said he cannot be deported to the—to El Salvador.
That being said, a judge—and this is when Trump was still president, oh, uh, this is not a Biden thing—said you—you can’t deport him there.
So we probably should not have deported him there.
By the way, this is something the Trump administration has admitted to—admitted to making a mistake.
That’s okay. Oh well, it sucks for the guy. And this is why the family is upset about it.
That being said, there’s not a lot of evidence he’s a wonderful human being and should be treated as they are treating him.
Sure, domestic violence—but that wasn’t really proven. You know, it was just accused by his—by his wife, who’s now so totally in love with him.
Like now it’s—of course—you know, accused him of domestic violence before. Now, can’t believe this horrible government would take—
“I walked into a door.” It happens to me all the time.
That’s uh, “fell down the stairs.” You know, that happens.
Anyway…
Glenn (continued):
Uh, Patty Moren was, um—well, her daughter, uh, was killed. And here’s what she said yesterday from the White House.
Patty Moren (clip):
Tell the truth.Exactly.
Tell the truth. Tell like how violent it really is.
This is about protecting our children. It’s more than just politics or votes or just anything.
It’s about national security.
Protecting Americans.
Protecting our children.
Thank you.
Thank you for listening.
Share your daughter’s story.
Tell the truth.
Glenn:
Um, and I think the country hears you a lot—loud and clear. So thank you.Does anyone have, um, any questions for Patty? Um, or for me?
No?
Oh, no, nobody questions? No questions?
Not going to ask the mom, ’cause I’ll lose in that argument.
‘Cause it’s not really about finding the truth.
It’s about fashioning an argument.
And I’m not going to be the one that questions mom with the dead daughter.
Yeah, that’s what they were thinking.
Nope. No questions here.
Don’t look at me.
They’re not interested.
Right. The same thing with, uh, you know, Chris Van Hollen, right?
Stu:
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.Glenn:
Um, would you have known his name last week?Stu:
No.Glenn:
Uh-uh.I love this one ’cause—Chris Van Hollen is a senator—
Stu:
Mm-hmm.Glenn:
Um, from a state.From a state.
Um, who would have—who would have known?
And not even that state. I’m not even sure that the people in his state—
Went to the political media apparatus of this country and asked: Who is Chris Van Hollen?
95% of them would have said “Who?”
Stu:
Yes. As of last week.Glenn:
Yes. But what—I—he’s actually become my favorite part of the story, which is this pathetic attempt to take a vacation to El Salvador and try to free him or something.ADVERTISEMENTHe’s going to bring him back.
And he goes to the—he goes to El Salvador and just nobody pays any attention to him.
He’s totally ignored.
He’s like—it’s like if John Cusack went up and held up the—the uh—the boombox by the window in Say Anything, and the—the girl just wasn’t home.
You know?
Like—it’s like—it’s just a pathetic—what a loser this guy is.
And he goes down there, gets absolutely nothing done.
He flies all the way down there for them to tell him, “What are you even doing here? No, we’re not going to listen to you.
Who are you, by the way? Who’s Chris Van Hollen?”
And then the entire time he’s ignoring the families of people who have been murdered in his—his own constituents—family members that have been murdered by illegal immigrants.
They don’t get calls.
They don’t get mentions on his Twitter.
They get nothing.
And he flies all the way down there to try to free this guy who was beating his wife—allegedly—
And, uh, was here illegally—not allegedly, he admitted that—
And maybe, most likely, was a member of MS-13.
Okay, we see the priorities of the Left.
This is what it is.
Yes, they care about that type of person.
But not the family who had their—their, uh, you know, daughter or son or, uh, other family member murdered.
They don’t care.
Stu:
Isn’t it—isn’t it fascinating what they’re choosing to stand for?Glenn:
It is. I mean, it really—I mean you just can’t—how do you argue you’re on the other side?Hang on just a second.
So you’re with the guy who came here illegally—
Maybe we don’t have everything rock solid here—
But this is the pattern.
And he’s also not an American citizen.
So, you know, ship him back.
But what—what—what you’re standing up for?
That’s the most important out of all of the things that are going on?
And you’re not—you’re reporting on that day and night.
But you’re not reporting on the mother who had her daughter killed—brutally killed.
You’re not reporting on that at all, really?
Wow. That’s—
Uh, that’s incredible.
Incredible. I mean, just—you can’t—you cannot make this stuff up.
Also, I just want to let you know—we’re—we—we’re three miles away from a papoosea stand.
Stu:
Are we really?Glenn:
We can get papooseas to the studio at any moment.ADVERTISEMENTStu:
You know—we—we are the babies or the—Glenn:
No, no. We don’t want—we’re not going to—no.Why would we want the—we’re not going to bring the babies in.
Stu:
No? Okay, all right.Glenn:
Just want to make sure ’cause I don’t want you eating any babies.There’s multiple—I will say—’cause I’ve heard you—you look at babies—you’re like “I can just eat you up.”
And I’m like, “No, don’t do it, Stu. Don’t do it.”
He’s got—I got a whole stand of babies up.
Yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy.
Stu:
Yeah, I’ve—I’ve heard it from—you could eat that leg. That leg—Glenn:
That’s—you.You know, Glenn, I don’t think people necessarily know that, uh, when you chose to move the studios here to Texas—
You decided to put them in the most diverse city in America.
Glenn:
That’s—that’s what I chose. That’s what I chose. I said, “Where could we find—where—what ZIP code is the most diverse in the entire country?”I said, “That’s where I want to build my studios.”
And lo and behold, they were built right here in 1982.
And, uh, we occupied them as soon as we got here.
Stu:
Well, you could have moved anywhere. And you moved to lit—I mean this is actually true—literally the most diverse city in America.Do you have a papoosea stand within three miles?
Glenn:
Three miles. I can get Korean barbecue, papoosea stuff, Indian food, Asian food.We can eat anything we want.
Stu:
Anything we want, right here.Glenn:
Barbecue.Stu:
Uh-huh.Glenn:
Right here. Right here.But I’m afraid if we go to the papoosea stand that we will get—uh—
Will we get terrorized?
Stu:
Oh, will we get terrorized by a gang or will we just get a bunch of babies?Glenn:
No, I think we’ll get babies.I think they might terrorize us with a bunch of babies.
Stu:
Here, eat this!Glenn:
Wait—a gang of babies?Stu:
Yeah.Glenn:
That’s—that’s what happens.It’s the mean streets.
It’s the mean streets.
This is the—this is the life we live.
You know—don’t cry for me, Argentina.
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