Democrats’ poster child for anti-Trump deportations, Kilmer Abrego-Garcia, continues to suffer reputational damage as his checkered past continues to surface.
His alleged human trafficking boss has spoken after the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) released the bodycam footage of his traffic stop while hauling alleged human trafficking subjects.
“He’s hauling these people for money,” the trooper said.
During the stop, the El Salvadorian was driving a 2001 Chevrolet Silverado belonging to a convicted human trafficker, Ramon Hernandez Reyes. The alleged MS-13 gang member also had $1,400 in cash, which one THP officer suggested was his payment for transporting the suspected illegal aliens across the country. All nine passengers in the vehicle had no luggage and gave Abrego-Garcia’s address, which is typical of individuals being smuggled into the country.
THP officers contacted Biden’s FBI and were instructed to release him without charges. He also did not receive a speeding ticket but was given a warning for driving with an expired license.
“Per standard protocol, the THP contacted federal law enforcement authorities with the Biden-era FBI — the agency of jurisdiction — who made the decision not to detain him.”
Reyes has now confirmed that he had indeed hired Abrego-Garcia to transport illegal immigrants from Texas to other parts of the country, as the officer had suspected. When asked about the car owner, Abrego-Garcia said it belonged to his boss, further corroborating Reyes’ claim.
The convicted smuggler also disclosed that he met Abrego-Garcia in 2015 and they started working together for many years before he was arrested in 2019 and convicted in 2020.
“Hernandez Reyes reportedly told the DOJ officials that he met Abrego Garcia in 2015, just three years after the latter man reportedly admitted to illegally entering the United States,” the Tennessee Star reported.
Reyes also disclosed that he charged $350 per head and paid Abrego-Garcia part of the money to drive illegal immigrants across the country.
Meanwhile, Reyes was sentenced to 18 months in prison, deported, and ordered not to return to the United States for three years. However, he illegally re-entered the country and was re-arrested. He confessed to illegal reentry and was sentenced to 30 months in prison in 2022, which he is currently serving at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Talladega, Alabama.
Reyes confessed to the Department of Justice attorneys and will receive “limited immunity.” During his trial, Reyes had also confessed to conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants and being in the country illegally. Thus, his recent confession may not significantly affect his current sentence.
Similarly, Abrego-Garcia admitted to being in the country illegally during his 2019 trial, in which he was the judge entered a “withholding of removal” order preventing him from being deported to his home country of El Salvador or Guatemala.
Nonetheless, Democrats will continue to lie that American citizens could be deported to foreign countries, often citing Abrego-Garcia as an example. They will also continue to ignore all the mounting evidence that the alleged MS-13 gangbanger was not the model citizen they present him to be.
