DHS: Deported Alleged MS-13 Gang Member Kilmar Abrego Garcia Was Found With ‘Rolls of Cash and Drugs’ When Arrested in 2019

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Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin revealed on Wednesday that deported illegal alien and alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia was with two other MS-13 members when he was arrested in 2019, and was found to have  “rolls of cash and drugs” on him.

Garcia crossed the border into the United States illegally in 2011 and when he was arrested in 2019, claimed he had to flee El Salvador as a teenager to escape gang violence.

McLaughlin noted that at the time of his arrest, Garcia’s clothing choices signaled an affiliation with the MS-13 gang.

Democrats and their allies in the media have derided the Trump administration’s case against Garcia as “flimsy,” scoffing that the only evidence they had regarding Garcia’s gang affiliation was the Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie he had on when he was arrested, along with the allegations of an unreliable FBI informant.

But the assistant secretary disclosed on X Wednesday that the administration possesses much more damning evidence against the El Salvadoran deportee.

1. When Garcia was arrested he was found with rolls of cash and drugs.
2. He was arrested with two other members of MS-13.
3. Two judges found that he was a member of MS-13. That finding has not been disturbed.
4. When arrested he was wearing what is effectively MS-13’s uniform.

New information unearthed by independent journalist Andy Ngo Wednesday spelled more bad news for Garcia and his defenders in the media and Congress. Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez has twice accused him of committing domestic violence against her.

In 2020 and 2021, Vasquez requested and received emergency temporary protective orders against Garcia in Prince’s County, Md. Her allegations that he is dangerous and violent are consistent with similar findings from prior U.S. immigration court rulings.

The couple has one child together, though Vasquez has misrepresented Garcia as the father of all three of her children.

Garcia was deported to his native El Salvador on March 15 and is in prison there currently. Democrats and liberal media have demanded that the former illegal alien and accused MS-13 member be returned to the U.S.

Vasquez’s GoFundMe campaign, which has raised nearly $200,000 to help her family financially, paints a radically different picture of the alleged gang member and human trafficker.

“Kilmar is a loving father, husband, son, brother, union construction co-worker, and CASA member,” the GoFundMe page asserts. CASA is a Latino and immigration advocacy-and-assistance organization based in Maryland that is funded by state and federal governments, as well as George Soros’ Open Society Institute, according to Discover the Networks.

CASA receives approximately 40% of its funding from Maryland’s state and local governments. Other noteworthy benefactors of the Association include the U.S. federal government, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and George Soros‘ Open Society Institute. From 2008-10, CASA received some $1.5 million from the regime of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.

Gustavo Torres, who left his native Colombia in the 1980s to support the Marxist-Leninist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, has served as CASA’s executive director since 1993.

In her GoFundMe, Vasquez is quoted as saying:  “Kilmar is an excellent father. He has always been there for our three children and all of their needs. Two of them are on the autism spectrum (ages five and nine), and our third has epilepsy (age 10). Kilmar has been the main provider of our household and the love of my life for over seven years. Since our family has been separated, I have been devastated and confused. I lost my life partner, my children lost their father, and all of our family, neighbors, co-workers, and friends have been devastated due to this unjust family separation.”

Both the original immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals in 2019 found there was sufficient evidence that Garcia was a member of MS-13 and, as such, a danger to the public.

An immigration judge subsequently barred Garcia from being returned to El Salvador, saying it was “more likely than not that he would be persecuted” there. But now, because President Trump designated MS-13 a foreign terrorist organization, the judge’s order in 2019 is no longer applicable, according to White House Homeland Security advisor Stephen Miller.

During an interview with ABC News, Tuesday, McLaughlin reiterated that Garcia is a confirmed MS-13 gang member “who has been involved in human trafficking, involved in labor trafficking and who should not be in this country.”

Update:

Fox News’s Bill Melugin obtained Vasquez’s 2021 hand-written domestic violence petition, alleging Garcia repeatedly beat her.

“At this point, I am afraid to be close to him. I have multiple photos/videos of how violent he can be and all the bruises he bas left me,” she wrote.

In a violent episode in the car while he was driving, she alleges that Garcia threw her laptop on the floor and punched and scratched her on her eye, leaving her bleeding. Later that day, she said,  he got angry again, started yelling, and ripped her shirt and shorts off, then grabbed her arm, leaving marks.

She also alleged that he assaulted her two times in 2020″

“In November 2020, he hit me with his work boot.”

“In August 2020, hit me in the eye leaving a purple eye.”