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Also the administration claims to be "powerless" to free him now. Does anybody believe this? Terrifying.

This isn't the only case, how many others are out there? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/its-a-tradit...

> The evidence they cited included his wearing of a Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie and a confidential informant’s claim that Abrego Garcia belonged to MS-13’s “Westerns clique” in Long Island, New York, despite having never lived there.

Some pretty flimsy evidence…

And all this time this guy was what? Working and being productive like anyone else…

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43544534

210 points, 146 comments

Wish there was a "vouch" option for when things that the US political right feels is an attack, despite it just being facts and worthy of discussion in an economic sector that is heavily connected with immigration, is flagged.

Since AP decided to not actually even say this in their article:

"Abrego Garcia was deemed by an immigration judge in 2019 to be a likely member of the MS-13 gang — a decision Abrego Garcia sharply contested and that the government credited to information gleaned from a confidential informant. But the court also agreed at the time that he should not be deported to El Salvador, finding that his fear of being persecuted was credible."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/01/salvador-man-maryla...

Court filing: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578...

ICE arrests US citizens all the time, some are held for years without trial.

The following article is from 2018. It’s even worse now. They are out of control.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/story/2018-04-27/ice-held-a...

> Davino Watson, a U.S. citizen, was wrongfully held in immigration detention centers for more than three years while he sought to prove his citizenship.

The cruelty and capriciousness is the point. Abolish ICE.

This is intentionally deceptive messaging, as per usual. This "Maryland man" was an illegal immigrant who had been previously found by a judge to've been a member of MS-13.

An immigration judge ordered him deported in 2019 because of suspected gang ties, after an appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals: https://www.wmar2news.com/infocus/family-of-alleged-gang-mem... (“Other court documents show an immigration judge ordered Abrego-Garcia to be removed from the U.S. back in April 2019 over his alleged gang ties.”).