Pam Bondi Says Deported Man’s Family Is ‘Safer Tonight Because He Is Out of Our Country’ – Wife’s Pleas Be Damned
Michael LucianoApr 16th, 2025, 11:03 pm\
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the family of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is “safer” now that the Maryland husband and father of three is in a mega-prison in El Salvador.
On Wednesday, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) went to El Salvador to try to secure his constituent’s release. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling ordering the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia, who the administration conceded in court had been deported “because of an administrative error.” However, lawyers for the Department of Justice have been stalling and President Donald Trump has claimed the matter is up to El Salvador – even though the U.S. is paying the county millions to house more than 250 deportees it sent there.
The Department of Homeland Security claims Abrego Garcia is in a gang, though he has no criminal record. On Wednesday, the agency posted screenshots of a 2021 restraining order sought by Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vazquez. On Tuesday, Vazquez pleaded for the return of her husband.
“I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive,” she said. “Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn’t forgotten about you. Our children are asking: When will you come home?”
Bondi appeared on Wednesday’s Hannity on Fox News, where she defended the deportation.
“America is safer because he is gone,” she said. “Maryland is safer because he is gone. And that woman that he is married to and that child he had with her, they are safer tonight because he is out of our country and sitting in El Salvador where he belongs.”
Bondi went on to rehash the claim that Abrego Garcia was in a gang and claimed Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele will not send the prisoner back, and therefore, the Trump administration’s hands are tied.
“And President Bukele made it crystal clear that he is not returning him to our country,” she said. “Our only job, legally, was to facilitate it if, according to the Supreme Court, President Bukele wanted him to come back to our country and he does not want him back and we do not want him back in our country.”
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