Kilmar Abrego Garcia became the face of the Trump administration’s cruelty and incompetence earlier this year. The Maryland father was in the country legally, had no criminal record, and was snatched from his home by mistake. He was promptly flown out of the country and tossed into El Salvador’s CECOT prison, with authorities insisting they had no way to retrieve him, not that they even wanted to.
A torrent of lies followed, with the embarrassed White House doing their best to paint Garcia as the most degenerate, violent, and evil gang member the nation had ever seen. The low point was Trump himself holding up an obviously edited image of Garcia’s hand and insisting that he had MS-13 tattooed on his knuckles.
