The media's obsession with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien and suspected MS-13 member who was deported to his native El Salvador, continued on Wednesday. During a cabinet meeting at the White House, a reporter asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio if he's "been in touch" with the Central American country about "returning" Abrego Garcia. Let's just say he wasn't interested in playing that game. 

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Reporter: "Have you been in touch with El Salvador about returning Abrego Garcia?"@SecRubio: "Well I would never tell you that and you know who else I would never tell? A judge. Because the conduct of our foreign policy belongs to the President." pic.twitter.com/ORrW5ezcOj

— Department of State (@StateDept) April 30, 2025

It's just astonishing to me. There are so many important things going on in the world right now, yet all the press wants to talk about is a guy who allegedly beat his wife and was found driving a human smuggler's car. Even if one has legitimate questions about "due process" in this case, surely there are better examples than Abrego Garcia to latch onto. The entire thing seems like such a self-own to me, but Democrats and their media allies seem intent on pushing this through to the end, making a probable gangbanger the face of their movement.

As Rubio says, there is no reason to even continue to talk about this, much less should the administration be telegraphing its inner workings to a hostile press and judiciary. All they are going to do is use it to try to gin up controversy while taking things out of context, likely by purposely omitting Abrego Garcia's alleged background and the evidence supporting it. 

Further, I'll take a bit of a victory on this because I believe I was one of the first to suggest that Abrego Garcia's case would be mooted if El Salvador simply refused to return him. Way back at the beginning of April, when this story was just heating up, I pondered the following question. 

Then there's another part of this. What if El Salvador doesn't want to let Garcia come back? He is an El Salvadoran citizen, and they do have jurisdiction over him in that regard. Just because an American judge wants something doesn't mean it's necessarily possible to give it to him, especially when dealing with international affairs.

Well, El Salvador's president did just that. He dismissed the idea of returning Abrego Garcia, asking aloud if he should smuggle him back across the border, illustrating the absurdity of what is being asked. Again, this particular illegal alien is from El Salvador. Once he's there, what his home country does with him is not our business, and no amount of American judges putting out orders will change that. That's one of the risks of coming to America and crossing the border illegally. After being deported, there is no process to bring someone back.

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