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your support. So Maryland Senator Chris van Holland finally got
his meeting with Kilmar Albrego Garcia down in El Salvador.
He had attempted to enter the Notorious prison. That's the
name of the prison. I believe it's called notorious meaning
torreous is not allowed noorious. Anyway, the Democrat senator tried
to get in. They didn't let him in, and then
he tried to go back. After he went back to
a hotel or something, and then he tried to go
back and he got stopped at a military checkpoint and
they're like notorious, and so then he went back. But
then they were like, we're going to we're going to
give a furlough. I guess to a Brago, Garcia, and
we're gonna we're gonna bring him along with an interpreter,
as all Maryland fathers need. I'm going to bring this
interpreter to the to a hotel and you're going to
meet him at this hotel where they sipped on coffee,
water and apparently some margaritas. So proof of life confirmed.
He's still alive, he seems healthy, no signs of torture.
He did not communicate that he had been tortured or anything.
So why would they do that? Why would l Salvador
first say no, say no again, and then say, you
know what, why don't you guys meet at this hotel?
And then when they're at the hotel, take a bunch
of pictures and then post them on Twitter. Why would
El Salvador do that? Well, according to the president, Naib Bukeley,
who in case you aren't aware, this guy has been
leading a crackdown on crime for a few years now
and has turned El Salvador from the murder capital of
the Western Hemisphere into a much much safer place, one
of the safest places in the area kilmar Abrego, Garcia.
This is according to a tweet by the president of
El Salvador. Garcia miraculously risen from the quote death camps,
end quote torture, now sipping margheritas with Senator Van Holland
in the tropical paradise of L. Salvador.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 1: Part of the issue with this case here is that
Garcia is from L. Salvador. He is an L. Salvadorian
or El Salvadora, El salvadoright whatever, He's from El Salvador.
And yes, the Trump administration messed up, they said they
did by sending him to El Salvador. The one country
that a judge in America said, don't send him there, Like, fine,
deport him, but send him someplace besides El Salvador. So
they send him there anyway. Now, the problem is that
El Salvador, because of Bukeley and the focus on making L.
Salvador safe, he's been imprisoning a lot of people, gang members,
cartel members and stuff. They've been on this massive campaign.
I guess that's why the jail is now notorious. It's
because it's it's packed with Trende Arragua, MS thirteen, Barrio eighteen,
these various criminal organizations.
Speaker 2: So the L.
Speaker 1: Salvadoran government is not interested in letting this guy out
if he is in fact a member of MS thirteen.
And so when Chris van Holland says I want to
see him, they're like no, And he says I want
to see him again. They're like no for the second time,
and he's like, I want to see him. Like actually,
you know what, Yeah, come over here, we're going to
have you take a picture with him. And this is
being celebrated by Democrats. Could it be that El Salvador
knows something about this guy and American authorities know something
about this guy, and they're like, you want to you
want to die on this hill? Okay, there's the hill, right,
here's some here's some shoes for you to hike up it.
Salvador and President posted photos of the meeting, but then
also suggested that he will remain incarcerated by his government,
which is being paid by the United States to hold deporties.
This is another thing. In the caller in the last hour,
Tyler mentioned the contract that we're paying. The contract we're
paying is for TDA Trende Ragua, right, that's what the like,
that's who we were deporting, the TDA guys. MS thirteen,
particularly an L Salvadoran national being returned to their home country.
I'm not so sure we're paying for him at all,
because that's one of your guys. We just had to
get him out of our country. He's now back in
his home country, your country. If you want to keep
him in your prison for whatever charges you've got him on,
that's up to them. That's a sovereign country. We shouldn't
be paying to incarcerate him down in El Salvador. Abrego's wife,
Abrego Garcia's wife, Jennifer Vasquez, said in a statement after
the meeting with Van Holland that her prayers have been answered.
According to CBS News, El Salvador's notorious terrorism Confinement Center,
they actually did it twice, so they call it the
notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, and then later on they call
it the notorious supermax prison. It's notorious. Terrible things going
on in the prison. Yes, let me go over and
I'll talk to this Cohen. Sure, Hello, Cohen, Welcome to
the show.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Pete. Listen, tell me about the tattoos on
that guy's fingers. From on his corner, he has a
marijuana leaf and then he has a smiley face in
the one and that well, what's the first letter of marijuana?
M what's the first letter? Was Smiley signs.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like I said this already, Smiley S.
Speaker 3: Smiley S Yep, yeah, as one three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the one is a cross, right. MS thirteen uses
the cross to hide the one, and then they have
the skull where they make the three inside of the skull.
And so yes, that's the MS thirteen. Correct. You have
cracked the code.
Speaker 2: Cohen, Well, it just came to me.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, Cohen, I appreciate the call.
Have a great weekend. Yeah. The administration admitted in court
papers that Brego Garcia was sent to l Salvador with
hundreds of others salvador And and Venezuelan migrants due to
an administrative error. US District Court Judge Paula Zennis or
maybe that would be formerly known as Twitter in US,
ordered the government to facilitated of Brego Garcia's return to
the United States, and the Supreme Court backed up that order,
but he has remained in El Salvador since then, with
Twitter Inness suggesting that the government hasn't complied with her
order and demanding regular updates on his status. The Trump
administration has pushed back, arguing it's up to l Salvador
to decide whether to return a Brego Garcia, an argument
that an appeals court called shocking yesterday. The government has
also alleged Abrego Garcia is linked to the Salvadoran gang
MS thirteen, citing a confidential informant, though his attorneys have
denied that that allegation and noted that A. Brigo Garcia
has not been charged or convicted of any crimes. Spoiler alert,
he does not need to be. He does not need
to be convicted of crimes in order to get a
deportation order against him. You know what, you need to
get a deportation order to be in the country illegally,
which he admitted to. Abrego Garcia, born in El Salvador,
entered the US illegally in twenty eleven at the age
of sixteen. He was arrested outside of a Maryland home
depot in twenty nineteen. This is CBS News, but a
judge barred the government from deporting him to El Salvador. Yes,
but not any other country, CBS warning he could be
persecuted by gangs in his home country. That was his
fear years later, which by the way, is based on
this story that he told that a gang Barrio eighteen,
was trying to shake down his mother who was selling
food out of her apartment or something, and they were
gonna kill him if she didn't pay them. But she
doesn't sell food out of her apartment building any longer,
and the Barrio eighteen gang has been smashed by the
new president Buchelea, who has been cracking down on the gangs.
So I'm not sure or if that threat is still
viable as it was back in twenty nineteen or so.
He was detained by immigration agents in Maryland and sent
down to the Salvadoran Detention Center, the notorious detention center,
I should say. So we do have evidence of his
connections to MS thirteen, which is what the original judges
heard when they determined that he should be deported. All right,
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got a message on Twitter from Russ responding to caller
Tyler in the last hour who said he was a
libertarian I think and by the way, because he said
you're a libertarian to me, and I said, well, I
didn't say this to him, but I have often said
I am a lower case L libertarian because I disagree
with the capital L Libertarian Party. A lot of their
platforms or planks in their platform I should say, and
one of the biggest ones is on foreign policy. I
tend to view things the way they are. I hope
for better, but I tend to view things the way
they are and the way things are on the planet
we have, you know, to quote Rush Limbaugh, the world
is governed by the aggressive use of force. Now you
may not like that, that may not that may not
comport with, you know, the libertarian principles of non aggression
and everything else. But that doesn't make that true. It
doesn't mean that everybody else abides that. And so one
of the things, you know, one of the things is
we have these things called countries. They have borders, and
I think that you don't have a country if you
don't have borders. And I think that these countries that
are you know, made up of usually a homogenized kind
of people, a population, whether it's through ethnicity or heritage
or race, or you know, mainly culture, language or concepts philosophy,
which is what America was founded to be, right, it's
an idea that we are united in this idea. And
so the world has always had countries that project their
power beyond their own borders always. That has always been
the case, even before there were countries. And so my
simple question to you know, capital L libertarians has always
been the same, which is, if you don't want us
to do it, and you can make all the arguments
about how terrible we've done it and all of that, fine,
I will see all of that. I'll concede every one
of those things to you. Right or wrong, doesn't matter.
Who do you prefer does it? Because somebody will do it.
Tell me another country that you would prefer to project
its power beyond its borders onto us? Who would you
prefer that be? And this is so that's one of
the disagreements I have. There are some others, but that's
one of the big ones is on the foreign policy
front and illegal immigration. The libertarian party on illegal immigration
has not always been where I land either. So anyway,
Russ says, Tyler's call is why I can't go full
capital L libertarian. I agree with almost all of the principles,
but they always seem to reach a point where they
cannot lead to any meaningful action. Also, his principled libertarian
stance led him to government intervening to care for people
who have by their own actions rejected our national social contract. Yeah,
I did find it. That's why I asked Tyler one
of those questions, because I found it sort of interesting
that he was advocating that the government should take care
of somebody in another country, that we need to make
sure that he's being cared for and all of this,
And then it turned into a morality argument of like,
this is who we are as Americans. Well, you can
stuff a lot of government intervention under that category, you know,
if that's your overarching philosophy, you can justify a lot
of stuff. You know, beware the government that tells you
they're doing this in order to help you or to
protect you, because that's usually not government's jam, just saying.
The thing that they're good at again to quote Rush
is military action. And the military is there to write,
kill people and break things. They do a pretty good
job at it. And that's what's needed because the ability
to say no, it carries with it an implied use
of force. Because if you cannot say no without that implication,
then you can't really say no. And anybody who has
had any interaction with MS thirteen or the MOB or
anybody any government agency, if you are up against somebody
or some entity that's got the ability to force you
to do something, then you really don't get to say no.
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All right, let me jump over and get to Steve
on the line. Hello Steve, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hey Pete, Yeah, Steve, how you doing, brother?
Speaker 1: I'm all right? How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great? Man good. I got a question about
this senator, right, and plus we've wasted two weeks with
this one. One topic is ridiculous? But who paid for
his trip? Pete? Do you know?
Speaker 1: My understanding is that it was paid for out of
his taxpayer funded senate funds?
Speaker 2: Great? Great, So in other words, the state Department DJ
nobody authored him to go there. He chose to do
it on his own and used our money to do it, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's my understanding. I've not seen the accounting
for it, but that would be my guess is that
it was an official, you know trip, and that he
used all of the all senators and congressmen, they get
an allocation to their individual offices so they can, you know,
buy furniture and whatever, and like every year, Ran Paul
refunds a bunch of the money back that he didn't use,
and so I suspect that's what he used to pay
for it, but I don't know that for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, well we're missing the whole reason of his trip.
His whole reason for that trip was to get votes
in Maryland to show he stood up for that for
the Latino side of things, that's the only reason that
man went down there.
Speaker 1: Well, but here's the thing. I would tend to agree
with you. It's it was a pr move on his part.
I agree with you. But the problem is that Hispanics
don't dig the MS thirteen either, because the people that
are terrorized by MS thirteen are generally Hispanics in the
communities where MS thirteen takes takes over.
Speaker 2: So that's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of these disconnects that on this illegal
immigration story that Democrats have never seemed to understand that
when you allow, you know, illegal aliens, criminal aliens to
come in, they prey upon the very people you claim
to be trying to protect. So yeah, it's yeah, it's
one of those things that you know, Democrats, but I
want to know, keep making the same mistakes that Democrats
just don't change. You're doing great, Steve, I appreciate the call, buddy,
have a great weekend. Regarding the caller in the first hour,
Tyler Jason writes into Pete at Thepete calendarshow dot com.
I think what Tyler was saying, let me translate for
you is I want things my way, and I'm going
to spin in cycles verbally until we get there. I
want open borders and to break this country in ways
that can only be solved by my special all knowing
white progressive mind. Well, he claimed to be a libertarian, Jason,
so I think he was a libertarian, so I'm not
sure if he's progressive. And then yes, Allison, the tattoos
on this guy's knuckles, and I started the program with this,
the MS one three. That's what the symbols mean on
his knuckles. And by the way, law enforcement recognized this too.
They have the it was the gang gang Information something
or other report that they had put together because they
had picked him up with two other known MS thirteen
gang members. Oh and by the way, when Donald Trump
he was apparently doing some swearing in or something today
and somebody asked him, you know, because he always opens
the floor for questions, somebody asks him about this meeting.
And this guy a Brego Garcia, And here's how MSNBC
covered it as Donald Trump started to outline the evidence
against Abrego Garcia, connecting him to MS thirteen.
Speaker 2: In twenty nineteen, Garcia was issued a deportation order two
separate judges of firm Garcia was a member of MS thirteen,
which is a gang that maybe even worse.
Speaker 1: We've been watching President Donald Trump there swearing in the
new administrator of the CMS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid,
doctor Memmett. There you go, doctor Oz getting a sworn in.
But as soon as he started talking about the facts
of the case, which if you're MSNBC, don't you want
to know the facts of the case now? Of course not,
That just makes your narratives harder to spin. I can
disagree with the Trump administration's approach to fixing their mess up,
and they did mess up. They said they messed up.
I'm not attacking the Trump administration for this. I'm just
pointing out that they said they messed up by sending
him to El Salvador, not that they deported him, but
that they deported him to that specific country because a
judge said he can be deported, another judge said, yes,
deport him, and then a third judge gave him this,
this ruling that said, Okay, yes you can deport him,
but only to El Salvador. And then the Trump administration
threw him on a plane to l Salvador. And that's
the violation. See like that, to me is the only
due process argument to be made. And all Trump has
to do is give the guy a bus ticket to
get him out of the country and to ask the
president of El Salvador, hey, can you let the guy go?
Or as better yet, give him gas money and drive
him to the border, dump him out, let him go.
But I think the administration is test the bounds of
these courts that are issuing these rulings that are encroaching
into the Article two powers, the presidential powers. Article three
in the Constitution is the judicial powers. And I think
that they want this fight because they are testing where
that line is for the Supreme Court and these district courts.
We want you to say it, what exactly is it
you want us to do? Do you want to write
some foreign diplomatic cables for us? Would you like to
get on the phone with the president of a foreign
nation and act as a surrogate of the people of America?
Even though you were not elected to that position. Would
you like to do that? No, because that would be
an encroachment into the article two powers. Just thenews dot
com Stephen richards He reports that an immigration judge held
that the determination that the respondent is againang member appears
to be trustworthy and is supported by other evidence in
the record, namely information contained here. It is in the
Gang Field Interview Sheet or the GFIS. Although the court
is reluctant to give evidentiary weight to the respondent's clothing
as an indication of gang affiliation, the fact that a past,
proven and reliable source of information verified his gang membership,
his rank in the gang, and his gang name that
is sufficient to support that Garcia is a gang member.
And the respondent has failed to present any evidence to
rebut that assertion. And in fact, they're like, he was
picked up with these two other known MS thirteen gang members.
And one of the things about MS thirteen is you're
not allowed to hang out with anybody besides gang members
or recruits. That's one of their deals because they don't
want you talking with other people outside the gang. That's
how they keep control of the gang. So he just happens. Oh,
and I went over yesterday that he got busted running
a van down to Texas and picking up a bunch
of people. He had seven people in his car. I
think one or two of them may have been MS thirteen,
I don't remember, but the but he's driving him up
to Maryland. No license pulled over in Tennessee. They call
up Department of Homeland Security and the FBI and they're like, yeah,
we'll check into it. And then they call back like
an hour or so later, and then they're like, yeah,
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One other note here. The report that was submitted to
the court included information intelligence from the Prince George County
Gang Unit and the Prince George's County Police Gang Unit.
According to them, Abrego Garcia was validated as a member
of MS thirteen. He was identified as a member cha Keo.
I think that was cha Keo was the rank from
the Western Clique of MS thirteen, and I believe his
moniker was chilechl E. So you can argue he went
to the wrong country, but you cannot argue that he
wasn't ordered deported and he didn't have due process for
those orders to be issued. Now, the Supreme Court announced
yesterday that it's going to hear arguments in May on
President Trump's proposed limits on birthright citizenship, but it's not
clear whether they would weigh in on the constitution of
Trump's proposal or instead decide only whether it can be
blocked nationwide by a single federal district court judge. This
is the parallel path. Okay, you're arguing this one issue,
but there are other issues involved, and they may be
of equal or even greater importance than the case being argued.
Ed Morrissey at hot air dot Com. He said the
easiest action to take would have been for the Supreme
Court to ignore the requests and just let the cases
play out, but instead the Court decided to consolidate these
I think there are three of them. They combine these
three cases and they're going to hear them all, and
The New York Times says the move is a sign
that the justices consider the matter significant enough that they
would immediately consider it rather than letting it play out
in the lower courts. That means that the executive order
will remain paused in every state while the Court considers
the case. Because these injunctions were issued by in three
different lawsuits, three different complaints, three different judges. They issued
injunctions across the entire country, and the Trump administration is
arguing a single judge doesn't have that authority. Essentially, right,
but this was also the status. If they just let
this stay remain in place, that would have also affected
the same outcome. The Supreme Court could have just left
it alone to achieve the outcome by default, right, So
why do this? It means that at least four of
the judges on the Supreme Court want to debate this
case now rather than later. But are they debating the
merits of the order on the birthright citizenship or are
they going to be debating the reach of the stays
issued by the judges? And maybe both? Occasionally, the Court
will consider and issue and order defining the scope of
its review. They'll say, we're just looking at this one part,
but this order contains no such limitation. It appears that
Trump administration wants to challenge district courts in their habit
these days of applying stays and injunctions nationally, or at
least more broadly than just affecting the parties involved. But
that doesn't mean that the Supreme Court has to limit
itself to those issues. They have plenary jurisdiction over cases
anywhere in the federal judiciary, and they can decide to
hear all issues at hand if for or more judges
want to ABC reports, this Court should declare that enough
is enough. This is according to the administration's briefing that
they filed this court. The Supreme Court should declare that
enough is enough before district court's burgeoning reliance on universal
injunctions because further entrenched. The Court should stay the district
court's preliminary injunctions except to the individual plaintiffs and the
identified members of the organizational plaintiffs. In other words, if
you sued, if your organization sued, then that's what the stay,
that's what the injunction should apply to, not to the
entire country. One point to bear in mind the Court
has had ample opportunities to address jurisdictional limits in other
recent challenges. Right, they rebuked Judge James Boseburg for proceeding
in an improper venue, and that did seem to have
an impact on two other court hearing challenges in the
separate issues of the use of the Alien Enemies Act
for accelerated deportations. Those other cases seem better for a
more direct declaration of jurisdictional limitations. But maybe this is
just the first case or set of cases to annoy
enough justices to warrant a long needed intervention to discourage
venue shopping. Right, that's what this is about. Venue shopping.
Plaintiffs going to find judges that they know will issue
broad orders so they can get national injunctions or or
or rulings through a single judge. Right In with a
with an allied ideology. Ed Morrissey concludes this piece at
hot air dot Com by pointing out it appears to
be a recognition that the only or that only the
Supreme Court can effectively resolve the debate over the language
and meaning of the citizenship clause in the Fourteenth Amendment.
So you've got two issues. They may be of equal importance,
and the Supreme Court said, yeah, we're gonna hear it
next month. All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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