This is a mess of tweets about a worse mess in the real world: Earlier on Tuesday National Zero very perfunctorily picked up a Politico article by their courts beat guy Kyle Cheney, citing a Monday filing in which ICE admitted that they sent the wrong guy to the CECOT dungeon in El Salvador and can’t get him back since he’s outside of their jurisdiction now. The ICE official literally wrote that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia had been sent there in “error,” based on a likely false accusation that he was a member of MS-13, something that in 2019, during the first Trump Administration, an immigration judge had considered and then “granted withholding of removal to El Salvador pursuant to 8 USC § 1231(b)(3)(A). This grant of protection prohibited his removal to El Salvador.”
The Atlantic first reported it and Pod Save America guy Jon Favreau picked it up:
Anyone else who supports this administration have anything to say about this? Any of you Republicans? Any of you Fox News hosts or podcasters or other assorted sycophants?
This is fucking monstrous
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) April 1, 2025
And, since being Vice President of the United States doesn’t entail a whole lot of actual day-to-day responsibilities other than the ones self-assigned to holders of that office, JD Vance detailed himself to the administration’s cyber-patrol unit, tracking down and defeating libs in the media.
My comment is that according to the court document you apparently didn’t read he was a convicted MS-13 gang member with no legal right to be here.
My further comment is that it’s gross to get fired up about gang members getting deported while ignoring citizens they victimize. https://t.co/cPnloeyXYk
— JD Vance (@JDVance) April 1, 2025
Vance didn’t actually read the article or the court document because at no point was Abrego Garcia ever convicted of any crime, just that at one point he was denied bail over the accusation that he was a member of MS-13. That accusation was almost certainly false as after Abrego Garcia’s release was secured he had no contacts with law enforcement. He since married a US citizen who gave birth to a son who has autism and serious hearing defects… whose father is now in a dungeon.
And Cheney pointed that out:
The issue is not whether Abrego Garcia was removable — it’s that the court agreed he shouldn’t be sent to El Salvador. The administration has scoffed at the notion there have been errors in March 15 flight determinations. But here they acknowledge one.https://t.co/Zpi181RT9X pic.twitter.com/TdDaSEmBvY
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 1, 2025
To which Jaydee then quote-tweeted him and wrote:
Kyle Cheney, a “legal affairs reporter” is apparently unable or unwilling to look at the facts here.
In 2019, an Immigration Judge (under the Biden administration) determined that the deported man was, in fact, a member of the MS-13 gang. He also apparently had multiple traffic violations for which he failed to appear in court. A real winner.
It is telling that the entire American media is going to run a propaganda operation today making you think an innocent “father of 3” was apprehended by a gulag. Here are the relevant facts:
1) The man is an illegal immigrant with no right to be in our country.
2) An immigration judge during the Biden admin determined he was a member of the MS-13 gang.
3) Because he is not a citizen, he does not get a full jury trial by peers. In other words, whatever “due process” he was entitled to, he received.
Vance later edited the tweet to correct the not-terribly-uncommon MAGA mistake:
Kyle Cheney, a "legal affairs reporter" is apparently unable or unwilling to look at the facts here.
In 2019, an Immigration Judge (under the first Trump administration) determined that the deported man was, in fact, a member of the MS-13 gang. He also apparently had multiple… https://t.co/tEFd4AUqGY pic.twitter.com/i70r4leqkw
— JD Vance (@JDVance) April 1, 2025
Jaydee still asserts that Abrego Garcia got due process, even though, as you can read above, he kind of didn’t and there’s no way of getting him back to his family.
Why don't you get off of Twitter and actually do something to get these innocent people out of El Salvador? Due process and not harming innocent people is a bipartisan cause.
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) April 1, 2025
Favreau’s co-host Tommy Vietor summed up why the timing’s not the problem here.