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Chapter 1: Who is Kilmar Abrego-Garcia and why is he controversial?
Rayo Garcia's wife petitioned for an order of protection against him for two instances of domestic violence in May of 2021.
Chapter 2: Why are Democrats and the media defending this deportee?
Why are Democrats and the media fighting for his return?
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As the Trump administration pushes forward with its deportation agenda, Democrats are fighting for the return of a deportee sent to El Salvador.
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here now with the latest, Cabot. So this case has really dominated the immigration discussion all week. First, walk us through how this all started.
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Chapter 3: What criminal history does Kilmar Abrego-Garcia have?
Chapter 4: What reactions have Maryland lawmakers and victims' families had?
In response, the White House hosted Patty Morin, whose daughter Rachel was raped and murdered in Maryland by an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. She had a strong message for the lawmakers fighting to free Abrego Garcia.
To have a senator from Maryland who didn't even acknowledge or barely acknowledged my daughter and the brutal death that she endured to fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that's not even an American citizen. I don't understand this.
And now the White House has pointed to a slew of evidence that Abrego Garcia has had some run-ins with law enforcement in the past. What do we know about that so far?
Yeah, Democrats have depicted him as an upstanding citizen, husband, and father. But new reports are painting a very different picture. First, the DOJ released the police report from his initial arrest back in 2019. Those documents show that Abrego Garcia was found loitering with three other men, two of whom were previously convicted MS-13 members.
When officers approached, they attempted to hide drugs under a nearby car. At the time of his arrest, Abrego Garcia was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat. That's important because authorities say it's a clear symbol of, quote, members in good standing with the MS-13. And then we learned that in 2021, Abrego Garcia's wife sought a protective order against him following years of alleged domestic abuse.
Hmm. According to her sworn affidavit from the time, the wife alleges that at different times, Abrego Garcia punched her, leaving her with black eyes. He allegedly hit her with his work boots, scratched her eyes, and even drove erratically with her one-year-old in the car. And that's not all.
The Tennessee Star learned Wednesday that Abrego Garcia had been stopped by Tennessee Highway Patrol in 2022 on suspicion of human trafficking. In that case, he had been pulled over with seven individuals in his car, but no luggage. When questioned, he told officers he was driving them from Texas to Maryland on behalf of his, quote, boss, who worked in, quote, construction.
Obreg Garcia was detained for two hours and was found to not have a valid driver's license, which is a misdemeanor. The officer in that case immediately contacted the FBI and informed them he was concerned Obreg Garcia was engaged in human trafficking. But for unknown reasons, the FBI reportedly advised him to take photos of the passengers and then allow them on their way.
Republicans say these stories are just further proof of Borrego Garcia should have been deported long ago.
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Chapter 5: What led to the end of the Global Engagement Center?
Chapter 6: How did the UK Supreme Court define the word 'woman'?
The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.
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As the Trump administration pushes forward with its deportation agenda, Democrats are fighting for the return of a deportee sent to El Salvador.
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here now with the latest, Cabot. So this case has really dominated the immigration discussion all week. First, walk us through how this all started.
So the story centers around Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, a 29-year-old man who came to the U.S. illegally in 2011. Back in 2019, Garcia was arrested by ICE for suspected ties to the MS-13 gang and given a deportation order. However, a court ruled at the time that Abrego Garcia should not be sent to his home country of El Salvador because he might face potential threats from rival gangs there.
Despite that deportation order, he remained in the country until he was arrested again by ICE in March and deported to El Salvador days later. By April, the Supreme Court ruled that his return to El Salvador violated the previous court order that he be sent elsewhere and directed the White House to facilitate his return to America.
For their part, the Trump administration conceded that it was a, quote, clerical error on their part, but that it was up to officials in El Salvador about whether he should be released or not.
So yet another showdown between federal courts and the White House on immigration. And now we're seeing Democrat lawmakers get involved here as well. Tell us about that.
Right. Democrats certainly used the incident to try and prove the Trump administration was being careless in their mass deportation efforts. They say Abrego Garcia was a law-abiding father who never should have been deported in the first place. As the story gained attraction, a number of Democratic lawmakers vowed to go to El Salvador to fight for his release.
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Joining us now is investigative reporter Luke Rosiak, who has been following the story closely. So, Luke, first off, what is the Global Engagement Center?
Hi, Georgia. So the GEC was created in 2011 as the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications. In 2016, Barack Obama gave it a new name and said it would, quote, coordinate U.S. government communications aimed at countering foreign terrorist propaganda, particularly from groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda. But soon it was creating pressure on U.S.
platforms via advertising boycotts to delete conspiracy theories like the idea that coronavirus came from a Chinese lab. Like other State Department propaganda efforts, it was specifically barred from operating against Americans. But there's evidence that's exactly what it did.
When you look at things like the Twitter files, which showed how the Biden administration pressured Silicon Valley platforms to censor or remove content, one of the names that keeps popping up is GEC. The Daily Wire and The Federalist actually sued the State Department, alleging that the GEC was violating the First Amendment by funding groups like NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index.
The Global Disinformation Index put American media outlets on a, quote, dynamic exclusion list that was distributed to advertisers and named mainstream publications like The New York Post, Reason Magazine, and The Daily Wire and The Federalist as risky.
NewsGuard CEO said its goal is, quote, empowering governments to support quality journalism and systematically defund sources of harmful misinformation. The Daily Wire argued that GEC was funding proxies to do what would obviously be illegal for the government to do. And GEC was extremely secretive.
It used a suspicious financial structure that hid the money flow and refused to provide info to Congress.
So this agency is now gone?
Yes, technically. In fact, Congress let GEC expire last year after all the outrage. But Joe Biden moved those employees to a different group, basically doing the same thing. That's why Rubio has initiated a reduction of force for 50 positions working in that successor group. So not only is that group going to be gone, but those people will also be out of government instead of playing a shell game.
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