Of all the news outlets you wouldn’t expect to be supplying vital information indicating that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a gang member, the notoriously lefty BBC has to be near the top of the list.
And yet . . .
On today’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough went on a rumbling, bumbling, stumbling defense of Abrego Garcia–check the video beginning at 35 seconds for Scarborough doing his best bumbling Biden impression.
But Scarborough ended by emphatically exclaiming: “This whole idea that he’s a gang member: no he’s not! It was never proved.”
Scarborough also stressed that Abrego Garcia had not been convicted of a crime in the US. But no one denies that he was an illegal alien. Add to that his apparent gang connection, and he was ripe for deportation. Adios, amigo!
During his jittery rant, Scarborough stressed that a court had granted “protection status” to Abrego Garcia. But Scarborough never mentioned the basis of that order.
As per the BBC:
“Mr Abrego Garcia’s lawyers say that he was granted the status based on his ‘well-founded’ fear of persecution by Barrio-18, the main rival gang of MS-13.”
Ask yourself—better yet, ask Joe Scarborough—why would Abrego Garcia have a “well-founded fear of persecution by the main rival gang of MS-13” unless he had a real connection to that gang?
Scarborough couldn’t answer that question—or even dare ask it.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
4/18/25
6:05 am EDTJOE SCARBOROUGH: Well, I mean, you know, the thing is, the Trump administration has a lot of issues where there are people who are unambiguously gang members, people who unambiguously committed crimes, people who unambiguously would be so-called sort of poster child for these, what they’re trying to prove here.
Instead, they have a man here who was sent to prison. A man who the evidence that, that sent him to prison, eh, where he was in the United States, supposedly a gang member. It ended up being from a detective who was suspended. That, that, it was, got the clothes that he was wearing. It was also, again, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, the conflict between the hearsay, uh, eh, uh, evidence. Uh, eh, eh, even at the court.
Again, this is the most important thing. In 2019 [slaps hands] the court let him go! Never charged for a crime! The court released him, and gave him a special protected status. It’s rarely given in America!
And the protection status says you are allowed to stay in America. You are not — the U.S. government is not allowed to send you back to El Salvador. Now that is just clear-cut. And it was in 2019. It wasn’t in 2023 during the Biden administration. It was 2019 during the Trump administration. And the Trump administration let the ruling stand! They did not appeal it because they knew that Garcia was standing on firm legal grounds.
So Garcia stays in America. He reports to his immigration officer annually. He becomes a member of a union. He, he, he, he, he’s a worker. He’s a father.
Again, and, and you have the court saying: U.S. government, you cannot deport him. And again, the Trump administration in 2019 went along with it. Let it stand! Didn’t appeal it.
So this whole idea that, oh, he’s a gang member, we all know he’s a gang member. No he’s not. It was never proved.
