The Trump administration has thrown the full weight of its fury at Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Having earned their ire by committing the heinous crime of making them look foolish by deporting him by mistake, then vowing he would never return to the United States, and bullying him when he did return, they’ve tried their absolute hardest to make his life a living hell.
Their most recent plans were to ship him off to some third-world hellhole. Fortunately for Abrego Garcia, he had the constitution firmly on his side and – even after months and months of deep dives into his past – Trump’s goons couldn’t find any real dirt to pin on him.
Now he’s back home in Beltsville, Maryland after ICE freed him following a court ruling by US District Judge Paula Xinis, who not only ruled that federal authorities detained him without any legal basis, but discovered that he’d never even been given a deportation order in the first place!
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) December 11, 2025
Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge issued a removal order. https://t.co/22oxgPvz5z pic.twitter.com/FAvlbNFQy8
The truth still matters
Given that gullible MAGA rubes have been eagerly swallowing various untruths about Garcia for months now, they’re predictably apoplectic. Apparently not having learned her lesson, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt fell back to yet more outright lies:
Q: Does the White House have a response to a judge ordering the immediate release of Kilmar Ábrego García from ICE detention? Will you appeal?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 11, 2025
LEAVITT: Absolutely. The White House opposes this activism from a judge. He is a proven human trafficker pic.twitter.com/A2N7VXeAn7
Meanwhile, MAGA is busy attacking the judge (all the while parroting the same lies they’ve been force-fed):
Q: Does the White House have a response to a judge ordering the immediate release of Kilmar Ábrego García from ICE detention? Will you appeal?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 11, 2025
LEAVITT: Absolutely. The White House opposes this activism from a judge. He is a proven human trafficker pic.twitter.com/A2N7VXeAn7
Guess who’s back, back again…
— Stef
Meet Paula Xinis, a liberal activist judge who has just ordered the RELEASE of illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia from ICE custody
IMPEACH AND DEPORT pic.twitter.com/is5lUAQMgl(@retro_stef) December 11, 2025
In a way, it’s a little uplifting that, despite everything, facts and the law still matter in Trump’s America. Trump focused the power of multiple federal authorities on one innocent man but, ultimately, the truth was that Abrego Garcia just isn’t the violent criminal they so desperately want him to be.
We can only hope he gets to resume a relatively normal life after this nightmare. But, somehow, we suspect the Trump administration isn’t going to let this grudge go.
