Newly released bodycam video shows the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s 2022 traffic stop of now-deported gang thug Kilmar Abrego Garcia, in which officers suspected him of engaging in human smuggling.
In the footage of the encounter, which shows the “Maryland man” sitting behind the wheel after he was pulled over for speeding in a vehicle packed with eight people who had no luggage, one trooper is heard saying that the El Salvador national “was hauling these people for money.”
“He’s getting paid to haul these people, probably to Maryland, I’d say if I had my guess,” the officer said.
It would probably be a pretty good guess considering that the passengers didn’t have any luggage and that the vehicle appeared to have been modified to fit as many illegal aliens in as possible for the multi-day cross-country trek.
BREAKING: Fox has obtained the body cam footage that shows Kilmar Abrego Garcia being caught human trafficking in 2022.
Biden’s FBI was called, and said to simply release Abrego Garcia. Biden’s ICE was called, and never bothered to show up.
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The video was obtained by Fox News through a public records request and was featured on Thursday’s edition of “Jesse Watters Primetime” on the conservative news network.
“How many rows have you got in here? Four seats? Four rows of seats?” a trooper is heard saying. “Did y’all put an extra one in? Huh? Did y’all put another one in no? They come like this I’ve never seen one with that many seats in it.”
“He’s hauling these people for money,” a trooper says.
According to an unnamed source, “there was a conversation in the redacted portion of the video where state troopers discussed calling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The troopers called ICE, which didn’t come to pick up Abrego-Garcia.”
The source told Fox News Digital “that when state troopers entered Abrego-Garcia’s name into the National Crime Information Center, a warning appeared that showed he was suspected of being a gang member or terrorist.”
Abrego Garcia was not detained after the stop and was given a citation for driving with an expired license and allowed to continue transporting his passengers.
“Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a MS-13 gang member, illegal alien from El Salvador, and suspected human trafficker. The facts reveal he was pulled over with eight individuals in a car on an admitted three-day journey from Texas to Maryland with no luggage,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in an April 18 press release.
“The facts speak for themselves, and they reek of human trafficking. The media’s sympathetic narrative about this criminal illegal gang member has completely fallen apart. We hear far too much about the gang members and criminals’ false sob stories and not enough about their victims,” McLaughlin added.
The video is another headache for Democrats who have elevated Abrego Garcia into their new hero as the party’s activist judges wage a fierce legal battle against President Donald J. Trump and his administration who they seek to force to “bring him back” even as more evidence that the illegal alien is a really a bad guy and not an innocent victim continues to emerge.
“Members can look the other way and cannot deny the fact that this is happening as we speak today, and I would urge every senator to recognize the threat to everybody’s rights under the Constitution,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said in a fiery speech on the Senate floor earlier this week, deploying a bait and switch narrative after his visit to El Salvador to swill “margaritas” with the foreign “gang banger” turned into a public relations debacle.
“I am not vouching for Mr. Abrego Garcia, but I am vouching for his constitutional right to due process, because if Donald Trump can ignore court orders and trample over the rights of one man, he threatens the rights of everyone who lives in the United State of America,” the Democrat senator added.
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