S4 E15 - Deportation or Repatriation: The Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The video script explores the controversial removal of Salvadoran national Kmar Abrego Garcia, arguing that his expulsion was not a human rights violation, but rather a rightful repatriation. The script criticizes leftist outrage over due process and constitutional rights, comparing Garcia's case to genuinely serious injustices such as the imprisonment of American ballet dancer Ksenia Carolina in Russia. It asserts that Garcia’s removal was lawful and beneficial not only to the United States but also to El Salvador, framing the uproar as politically motivated rather than based on genuine concern for international law or human rights.

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They say it was a human rights violation, a due process disaster, and a constitutional crisis. How the expulsion of Kmar Abrego Garcia is exactly what's supposed to happen today on the 10th Man. We are diving today into the so-called outrage about the removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran National who was brace yourselves, sent back to El Salvador. Leftists are screaming about. Due process and constitutional violations, human rights abuses, all the while pretending they actually know what a nation is, or a citizen, or even a borderer. So here's a little spoil. Alert. Garcia was not deported. Garcia was repatriated, which is what you call it when you return someone to his own country. The, the one you're an actual citizen of. So let's try and get it straight. This claim of an abuse of constitutional rights, people

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claim abuse of constitutional

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rights these days. The way kids claim abuse when you tell'em to put their cell phone down. It reminds me of the old, uh, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. You're repressing me. You're repressing me. You see how I'm being repressed. And it's a comical, it's a comical routine sketch in that movie. And the left acts like every disagreement with their agenda is a First Amendment crisis or a violation of some part of the constitution. You can't tell your neighbor, to turn the music down without someone invoking the Bill of Rights and now telling. And. Illegal immigrant. He can't live here forever. That's somehow a 14th amendment case. Uh, it's like Monty Python. It's actually parody, but in this case, they're actually serious. I, let's talk about what due process actually is, because if you're not arrested, not imprisoned, and not denied a trial while being in prison. You haven't been denied due process, and that's the big claim about Garcia. But Kmar Garcia was not thrown into a gulag. He was put on a plane and sent home. That's not a denial of rights. That's actually a privilege in addition to being enforcement of the law. It is really amazing that this is taking place at the same time as other events without comparisons being made, because meanwhile, across the world, there is real injustice taking place. Ksenia, Carolina, it's probably Carolina, an American ballet dancer. This girl was locked up in a Russian prison. For expressing an opinion and the US government had to negotiate, had to fight for her release and actually exchange a prisoner for her. Now, were there any mass protests for her when her actual true rights were being violated when she was an actual true victim? Were there any activists who are marching for Garcia? Marching for, uh, Ksenia Carolina. Well, we know the answer to that, of course not. So Garcia the criminal, regardless of anybody's opinion about whether he's being treated harshly based on his crimes, but he's still a criminal, but he gets more sympathy than an innocent victim who was not just let go but thrown into jail. We just have a situation of judicial abuse the judges seem to have an idea. They're working under a myth of having total jurisdiction. And yes, there is a judge who called Garcia's, uh, expulsion apparently illegal. But the thing is. His presence in the United States was illegal. And if it's a gray area and his, his expulsion wasn't gone about in the most proper way, fine, but the result's the same. He's out of the country, where he should be. He never should have been here. He's gone now. The solved, and we'll give you a little allegory, a little, a little story that exemplifies this and. Uh, even if this is a legal gray area, it's only such because activists, judges, they keep coloring outside the lines because courts don't get to rule every single aspect of American life. Uh, but that's what they're trying to do. But that's not how a functioning system works. Like, think about doctors doing triage. There's a, train wreck, some sort of disaster where multiple people have taken to the, the emergency room. Well, the doctors have to decide who to work on first. Are you gonna bring in a judge and demand due process to get to the front of the line? Because that's what it is. It's a matter of choices doing this versus that. If you go to Disney World, the Disney ride operators decide. Who's too short to get on the ride? You can't get a court injunction to override what the, what the ride operators say based on the guidelines of the, of the park. And you don't get to sue a nightclub for not letting you in when they, they've reached their maximum or they think you've had too much to drink. Immigration is very similar. We have immigration officers who are assigned. It's their job to decide. Who belongs here and every sovereign nation operates the same way. They have immigration officers. it's not authoritarianism, it's not Nazism. It's just how every country works and how every country has to work. It couldn't be any, any other way. A question I would like to ask in some of these cases, when judges rule, they rule that this or that method of enforcing immigration law was not the right way to do it. Well, fine, we all know that immigration law has to be enforced. If not this way, then how? How is the president supposed to do? What is his actual job enforcing the law? But beyond all this, let's take a new look at this whole immigrant rights movement and look at the arrogance of the movement. So let's say this very loud, Kmar Garcia is a citizen of El Ador. He wasn't deported, he was repatriated. The same way we'd want Ksenia Carolina brought back to the US Garcia was returned to his home country. Now if the protestors wanted to get him out of Sea Cot, El Salvador's, supermax prison, they might have a point, even though that's a question for El Salvador, not for us, but they might have a point. Yeah, but that isn't what their point is. They want to bring him back to America. Now, why is that? What kind of arrogance is this? That he should be in America, not El Salvador. Is El Salvador unfit for human life? Because if it is, someone should tell the Global Peace Index because on the Global Peace Index, the US ranks way down at number 132. El Salvador is much higher ranked number 1 0 7, and we wanna talk about three other countries and their rankings. That'd be Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Honduras. All of those rank higher on the Global Peace Index than the United States does. And those three countries, along with El Salvador. They form what's called the Central America four, or the ca four. Most Americans have never heard of this, but it's a real, it's a formal agreement. It's kind of like a mini Schengen zone for our European listeners. The citizens of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua are allowed to travel freely across each other's borders without visas. They're free to live to work. Freely across multiple countries. So if you are a refugee, why not just go to one of these other three countries? That's your choice. If you really are in fear of your life in El Salvador, even with all the gangs eliminated, just go to Guatemala. You're in a country that speaks the same language. This has a similar culture and increasingly they have safer cities than parts of the United States. So tell us again, why does Garcia need to be in our country if he's afraid of gangs? Nayib Bukele wiped them out. El Salvador is safer than Chicago, and granted that might be a low bar. But if you believe all of the progressive talking points that America is full of fascists, white supremacists, racist cops, then it's actually more dangerous to send someone like Garcia here. I, The real arrogance is pretending that only in America can you find dignity, safety, and opportunity while simultaneously screaming that America is a a racist hellhole. Pick a lane, pick one lane and stay in it. Let's try to think outside the box. Let's break this down in a way that anybody can follow. Let's say you're at a movie theater. Now there's a group of nine teenagers and they're causing a scene down front. They're loud, disruptive, ignoring the rules. The ushers finally kick out all nine. No time to sort them out. Everybody goes. Once they're in the lobby, three of the boys start explaining themselves. The first kid says, I wasn't even making noise. And he is telling the truth, and they agreed to let him go back in and just show his ticket to the ticket taker. But he has no ticket. He wasn't supposed to be there in the first place. So the usher says, no ticket, no entry, and that's the end of that. The second kid says he wasn't making noise either, but it turns out he's too young to be at that movie. The Usher checks his ID realizes he's not even supposed to be out this late. They call his parents and he gets to go home with a scolding and a new curfew. Then there's the third kid. He explains that he wasn't part of the rowdy group. He was actually in the wrong theater by mistake. He has a ticket, but it was for a different screen. He wanted to leave, but the loud kids wouldn't let him out. The usher checks sees the ticket is valid and escorts him to the right theater. He thanks them and goes on to enjoy the movie. Now, which one of these four examples fits kil Ma Garcia? Is he one of the noise makers? Is he the kid that wasn't making noise, didn't have a ticket, the kid that wasn't making noise but is too young or the kid in the wrong theater? The third protesting kid. That's Kmar Garcia. Or at least the version of Garcia that we hope is true. Maybe he wasn't part of a gang. Maybe he just ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time without a clear way back. Either way, he didn't belong in the theater where he was, but he does have a valid ticket for a different one. El Salvador. And instead of throwing him out on the street, we sent him home to his own country with all the rights of his home country, with family, with free healthcare, and with safer streets than Baltimore. It is not exile, it's not punishment. It's not a Russian gulag. It's a reward. It is a win for him, a win for us, and a win for the system if he's telling the truth. But that's a judgment for his government now, and we respect El Salvador enough to trust them with their own citizens. The left says we're treating him like the first kid, just dumping him out unfairly. Others say, we're like the treating him like the second kid booting him for, for being in the wrong place, but the truth, this was the third scenario. He went home peacefully, rightfully, that's not a scandal, that's how it's supposed to work. Now, let's be honest, the feminists, the liberals, and the Democrats waving signs and chanting slogans. They don't care about Kilmore, Abrego Garcia. They don't care about you. They don't care about the law or the border, or even El Salvador. They only care about one thing fighting Trump. It doesn't matter what the issue is. Tariffs, immigration, public safety, or the weather report, they'll take the opposite side just to stay angry. And all we have to do to keep winning. Stand for the law, stand for the country. Stand for common sense. The case for Kmar Garcia isn't complicated. He entered illegally. He stayed illegally. He was returned legally. He belongs to El Salvador. And El Salvador belongs to him. If the left truly respected international law, sovereignty, or diversity, they'd celebrate that. Instead, they rage because they lost and the law won. And that my friend, is what terrifies them. Tell a friend about the 10th Man Podcast and thank you for listening.