J.D. Vance, the Vice President, criticized the backlash against the government’s management of mass deportations, especially a narrative in the media about an alleged innocent father who was deported because of an administrative mistake.
In an interview with “Fox & Friends,” Vance discussed the case of Abrego Garcia, a father from Maryland who had legal protection status but was erroneously sent back to El Salvador.
The specific father, highlighted by Democrats and the media as an example of the cruelty of Trump’s deportation tactics, was actually noted by an immigration judge in 2019 to have connections to the violent MS-13 gang.
Podcaster @jonfavs (and @grok, apparently) believe there is no evidence that Abrego-Garcia is a member of MS-13.
WRONG. Both the original immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals found there was sufficient evidence of such to render him a danger to the public. pic.twitter.com/ggyTw8k4o3
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) April 1, 2025
In fact, as White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pointed out to reporters earlier this week, he was a leader in the gang.
Vance expounded upon that fact when he spoke with Lawrence B. Jones earlier this morning.
“Back in 2019, an immigration judge looked at all the evidence, looked at all the data, and concluded that this allegedly innocent person that we sent to El Salvador was actually a member of an MS-13 gang,” Vance explained. “He had also committed some traffic violations. He had not shown up for some court dates.”
“This is not exactly Father of the Year here. This is a person that we don’t think should be in our country.”
