Warren blasts Trump administration over Abrego Garcia case: We don't 'disappear people'
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Thursday went after the Trump administration over the case of a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
“They want to have the American people say it's OK to just disappear people. And somehow they think, if they can make up lies about him, if they can do whatever they want, then the answer will be the American people will settle for this,” Warren said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“We do not disappear people in the United States,” the Massachusetts Democrat added. “Because here's the thing, if they can disappear Mr. Abrego Garcia, then they can disappear you.”
Abrego Garcia’s deportation came despite a U.S. immigration judge’s order from 2019 specifically protecting him from deportation to El Salvador, which is his home country.
The Trump administration has argued that Abrego Garcia was illegally in the country and has presented him as a menace to society.
“He’s not a Maryland man. He’s part of foreign terrorist organization. He’s a member of MS-13, who, as you laid out in your monologue, came to this country and committed just gang acts,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said Monday.
The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.