Video of Abrego Garcia in Custody Goes Viral

A video shared by the Department of Homeland Security of Kilmar Abrego Garcia being led through a Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in handcuffs moments after he was detained has gone viral after the Salvadoran national who entered the U.S. illegally criticized the country’s “corrupt government,” the New York Post reported on Tuesday.

Abrego Garcia was released last week from a Tennessee jail as he awaits trial on human smuggling charges. The Trump administration said that he is a member of the MS-13 criminal gang.

DHS wrote alongside the footage that “he doesn’t belong here. He won’t be staying here. America is a safer nation without this MS-13 gangbanger in it. Good riddance.”

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