If NewsBusters were to introduce a Scaremonger of the Month award, Symone Sanders would be the runaway winner for April.
On Saturday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Weekend, which she co-hosts, ther former Kamala Harris press aide was commenting on the Abrego Garcia case:
“Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s specific case, the case of the gentleman who’s a makeup artist out of California who was also sent to that prison . . . is so important. Because if they could do it to them, if they could snatch students off the street without any pushback or recourse, they will do it to any of us. To be very clear, it’s going to be the people of color and vulnerable communities that are next in line.”
Show guest Democrat Rep. Glenn Ivey, who represents the district where “Maryland man” Abrego Garcia lived, agreed with Sanders’ outlandish fear-mongering: “I think that’s right.”
Sanders’ evidence in support of her alarmist allegation? Nada–as Abrego Garcia would say. Let’s review:
No one disputes that Abrego Garcia was in the US illegally. That in itself made him a candidate for deportation. He obtained a court order protecting him from deportation on the basis, according to his lawyer, that Abrego Garcia had a “‘well-founded’ fear of persecution by Barrio-18, the main rival gang of MS-13.”
As we wrote earlier this week:
“Ask yourself: 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?”
Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen, who made that photo-op visit to Abrego Garcia earlier this week, is doing the “Full Ginsburg” today–appearing on all the leading Sunday talk shows.
If the hosts are doing their journalistic duty, at least one of them will flatly put it to Hollen: “Was Abrego Garcia a gang member?”
Look for some world-class equivocating by Hollen in response.
“Kamala’s for they/them. President Trump is for you” was perhaps the most consequential ad in presidential campaign history, sinking any chances Harris might have had.
Now it seems that Democrats, with big helping hands from Symone Sanders and the rest of the liberal media, are determined to make their championing of Abrego Garcia a key issue leading into the 2026 midterms.
The Republican ad makers are no doubt busy at work:
“Democrats are for alleged gang member and wife-beater Abrego Garcia. Republicans are for you.”
Here’s the transcript.
MSNBC
The Weekend
4/19/25
9:01 am EDTMICHAEL STEELE: Joining us now is the Democratic congressman who represents the Maryland district where Abrego Garcia lived, Glenn Ivey. Welcome to the table, sir.
GLENN IVERY: Thanks for having me.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-lawlessness-ldf/
SYMONE SANDERS: Congressman Ivey, thank you for being here. There is, I’ve been talking about this all week, but Janai Nelson of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, she penned an op-ed in The Nation this week. And her op-ed talked about that we think that democracies are, the way they die is dramatically through these wars, and blood is shed, and it’s cinematic in a sense.
But really, the realistic way in which democracies die is that it’s dismantled brick by brick, piece by piece.
And she says that what we are seeing now with the lawlessness from this administration are really the canaries in the coal mine gasping for air. I’m paraphrasing here.
But to me, that is why Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s specific case, the case of the gentleman who’s a makeup artist out of California who was also sent to that prison. That is why the more, the 75% of the folks who have been sent, the men who have been sent there that don’t have criminal records, that is why this is so important.
Because if they could do it to them, if they could snatch students off the street without any pushback or recourse, they will do it to any of us. To be very clear, it’s going to be the people of color and vulnerable communities that are next in line.
IVEY: I think that’s right. And that’s certainly part of why the African-American community is so strongly behind the supporting Kilmar.
SANDERS: Yeah, we’re like, we are not for this.
IVEY: Yeah, because as you just said, if they’re going to whisk them away, what are they going to do with us?
