“You’re acting like he’s father of the year,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters. Vice President JD Vance echoed her comments “He had committed some traffic violations. He had not shown up for some court dates,” Vance said. “This is not exactly father of the year here.”
Abrego Garcia was
arrested at an Ikea parking lot in front of his 5-year-old son, his lawyers say — even though he was
granted protection from deportation by a judge in 2019. On Friday, a federal judge
ordered the U.S. to return the 29-year-old by 11:59 p.m. Monday.
“The American people should know who this individual is,” she said. “He’s not some Maryland father, he’s actually a member of MS-13.”
There is no evidence that Abrego Garcia is in a gang, his attorneys say.
allegations of gang affiliation need to come in “the form of an indictment, complaint, criminal processing … I haven’t yet heard any of that from the government.”
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, Abrego Garcia’s wife and a U.S. citizen, urged supporters to keep fighting for “all the Kilmars out there whose stories are waiting to be heard.”