Lawyer Common Pam Bondi has insisted the household of alleged MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia is “safer” now that he has been deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s infamous megaprison.
The 29-year-old father, who was mistakenly booted from the US final month as a result of an administrative error, was beforehand accused of bodily abusing his spouse, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, again in 2021, the Division of Homeland Safety revealed Wednesday.
Although Abrego Garcia’s spouse has nonetheless been pushing for him to be introduced again to the US, Bondi advised his household have been higher off with out him.
“America is safer because he is gone,” Bondi advised Fox Information’ Sean Hannity Wednesday evening.
“Maryland is safer because he is gone. And that woman that he is married to and that child he had with her, they are safer tonight because he is out of our country and sitting in El Salvador where he belongs.”
Her remarks got here quickly after the Trump admin launched particulars of a protecting restraining order that Abrego Garcia’s spouse had utilized for following a home incident at their house in entrance of their then-infant on Might 4, 2021.
Within the petition for the order, Vasquez Sura alleged her husband had punched, scratched and grabbed her in the course of the ordeal.
“I was watching on my laptop, and he yelled at me to turn it off, I told him I wasn’t sleepy, he got angry, reached over shut and threw my laptop on the floor, and the baby started to cry because he was putting pressure on him, my [immediate] reaction was to push him off of us, and he then punched, [scratched] me on my left eye, leaning me bleeding,” she detailed in her personal handwriting, in line with the petition.
The Division of Homeland Safety posted screenshots of the order on X, saying it was proof that Abrego Garcia “had a history of violence and was not the upstanding ‘Maryland Man’ the media has portrayed him as.”
Bondi, too, launched proof of Abrego Garcia’s alleged ties to MS-13 — together with that he held the rank “Chequeo” and the road identify “Chele” inside the vicious prison group.
It comes after the US Supreme Courtroom ordered the Trump administration to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return from his native El Salvador after Washington acknowledged he was deported as a result of an administrative error.
Abrego Garcia, who left El Salvador at age 16, was granted a protecting order in 2019 to proceed dwelling within the US and has by no means been charged with or convicted of any crime.
His legal professionals have denied the Justice Division’s allegation that he’s a member of the prison gang MS-13.
Regardless of admitting the “clerical error” in Abrego Garcia’s deportation, the White Home has nonetheless insisted he ought to stay in El Salvador.
His spouse, for her half, has argued that the protecting order she utilized for a number of years again — which was later dismissed — was not justification to have him booted from the US.
“That is not a justification for ICE’s action of abducting him and deporting him to a country where he was supposed to be protected from deportation,” she mentioned.
“Kilmar has always been a loving partner and father, and I will continue to stand by him and demand justice for him.”
Vasquez Sura added that when she requested for cover from Abrego Garcia in 2021 she was “acting out of caution after a disagreement with Kilmar … in case things escalated” after she survived home abuse “in a previous relationship.”
“Things did not escalate, and I decided not to follow through with the civil court process. We were able to work through this situation privately as a family, including by going to counseling,” she mentioned.
“Our marriage only grew stronger in the years that followed. No one is perfect, and no marriage is perfect.”
In the meantime, Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday to fulfill with senior officers and advocate for Abrego Garcia’s launch, however was advised by El Salvador’s Vice President Felix Ulloa that he couldn’t authorize a go to or a name with Abrego Garcia.
