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Over the past months, I have written extensively about how the media misled people about the Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation case, which they twisted in such a fashion as to make people believe Trump had plucked a U.S. citizen off the street and deported him to El Salvador for no reason, and that a hat had been used as evidence of Garcia’s MS-13 gang affiliation.
The truth is, Garcia did not have a legal right to remain in the U.S.; the only error was that he was under an order specifically prohibiting deportation to El Salvador, but which did not prevent his deportation elsewhere.
And now, I’ve uncovered the real reason why a hat was submitted as evidence of his MS-13 affiliation.
In the Abrego Garcia case, law enforcement cited his Chicago Bulls hat as a clear indicator of MS-13 membership.
According to reports, in the specific neighborhood where Garcia lived, the Bulls logo was commonly used by MS-13 members as a localized gang identifier.
Officers stated that MS-13 members wore this specific team gear in that area, making it part of the gang’s regional dress code.
This wasn’t arbitrary. In some urban areas, specific sports logos, like those of the Bulls, Raiders, or Dodgers, are co-opted by gangs as visual markers of membership or allegiance.
Despite this, two judges later dismissed the hat as primary evidence, likely because clothing alone does not meet the legal threshold for proving gang membership.
However, they still found that other evidence was sufficient to conclude that Garcia was affiliated with MS-13.
Beyond this, the media also tried to make you believe he was a U.S. citizen or a green card holder. He was neither. He had entered the country illegally.
The only reason he was allowed to remain in the U.S. at all was because a judge accepted his claim that he would be in danger if returned to El Salvador.
He had also been in trouble with the police at least twice for beating his wife and children.
Garcia is an El Salvadoran citizen who was deported to El Salvador. The only error the administration made was sending him there directly, rather than to a third country.
President Trump asked El Salvadoran President Bukele to send him back, and Bukele refused. If Bukele does eventually send him back, Garcia still has no legal residence in the U.S. and will be deported again, this time to a third country willing to accept deported gang members.
Right now, the countries that have signaled their willingness to accept deported criminals are: El Salvador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, China, Colombia, Honduras, India, Angola, Benin, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Libya, Moldova, and Rwanda.
Recently, there have been numerous instances of the media distorting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE-related stories by omitting key facts.
One such case involves Ximena Arias-Cristobal, who was pulled over in Dalton, Georgia, for a traffic violation, initially reported as failure to signal.
During the stop, police discovered she was driving without a license. That offense, driving without a license, was the basis for her arrest, not the traffic stop itself.
In that jurisdiction, as part of routine booking procedures, local authorities check immigration status. It was at that point that she was found to be in the U.S. illegally.
The media’s framing of this case often omitted or downplayed these key facts. Some reports suggested she was “wrongfully pulled over” or portrayed her as a victim of mistaken identity, but the intent of the stop is irrelevant to her immigration status.
Law enforcement does not need a warrant to pull over a vehicle for a traffic violation, and her arrest was lawful based on her lack of a driver’s license.
The subsequent ICE detention followed standard procedure for an undocumented individual with a law enforcement record.
One of the most blatantly dishonest narratives pushed by the media involved the supposed deportation of a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras.
Headlines and reports implied that the U.S. government deported a citizen child, but that is categorically false.
What actually happened is that the child’s mother, an illegal alien and her legal guardian, was deported, and she chose to bring her daughter with her.
The government did not deport the child; it deported the mother, who exercised her legal right to keep her child in her custody.
While a federal judge later expressed “strong suspicion” that a U.S. citizen had been deported “with no meaningful process,” that suspicion was mistaken.
The child’s removal was not a deportation, neither was it a government action, it was a parental decision. Still, the media ran with the story, deliberately omitting the legal context and using it to paint ICE and the Trump administration as lawless.
Once again, the public was misled by selective reporting and emotional manipulation rather than the facts.
The mainstream media are consistently twisting the facts and crafting headlines designed to spark outrage over the arrest and deportation of illegal aliens, even those who have committed crimes.
My promise to Gateway Pundit readers is that I will continue to investigate and uncover the truth behind the lies. Additionally, I urge any Gateway Pundit reader who comes across a suspicious headline to send me a message, and I will investigate and respond in a follow-up article.
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