Apparently Trump doesn't want to deport all criminal illegal aliens

Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.

The Trump administration has agreed to release from prison a three-time felon who drunkenly fired shots in a Texas community and spare him from deportation in exchange for his cooperation in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego García, according to a review of court records and official testimony.

Hernandez is among a handful of cooperating witnesses who could help the Trump administration achieve its goal of never letting Abrego walk free in the United States again. In exchange, he has already been released early from federal prison to a halfway house and has been given permission to stay in the U.S. for at least a year.

Hernandez’s criminal record dates at least to 2015, when police in Chesterfield County, Virginia, arrested him for public drunkenness and he paid a small fine. He has been arrested or in prison every year since, according to federal, state and county records reviewed by The Post.

Houston police arrested him in 2016 for alleged cocaine possession, but court records show prosecutors dismissed the case because of an issue with the search. Police in College Station, Texas, arrested him in 2017 for allegedly driving while intoxicated with a handgun in the car. He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor drunken driving and was punished with 60 days in jail and a $1,500 fine. He also forfeited the gun to the state.
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So that they can convict Abrego Garcia and deport him again Trump's ICE and DOJ are willing to let Hernandez and probably other illegal aliens convicted of felonies remain in the US and they're doing so while detaining and deporting other undocumented immigrants whose only "crime" is illegal presence in the US including a number of whom have citizen spouses and children, are productive members of society and have been in the US sometimes for decades.

 

In this case the deal is giving at least one and probably multiple criminal illegal aliens a free pass in exchange for testimony against another high profile undocumented alien who may or may not be a criminal so that they can legally deport him after failing to do so illegally. Just a guess if the government is going to rely on the testimony of other undocumented aliens who have been convicted of real crimes in exchange for leniency including release from detention and waiver of deportation they may not have a very strong case.

 

Absolutely. If the government had a strong case against Abrego Garcia he would have been charged back in 2022 when he was originally pulled over with the other workers in the van he was driving. The only reason that he is being charged is to provide a pretext for another and presumably legal deportation. By the way there was a reason why a court issued an order prohibiting his deportation back to El Salvador. It's most likely based on the belief supported by evidence that he would be targeted by a gang not because he's a gang member.