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Fox News’ Jessica Tarlov slammed co-host Greg Gutfeld on Friday for claiming that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man that the Trump administration wrongfully sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador, is a political “prop” for Democrats.
“It’s not about being a prop. There will be other senators that are looking into these [deportations] because it is reported that over 75% of the people that were on that plane have not been convicted of anything,” she said on “The Five” about the Trump administration sending hundreds of people to the prison last month.
“And the American public understands the difference between being deported and being sent to a foreign prison. They don’t get a phone call, they don’t get to talk to their lawyer, their wife.”
She went on, “If we have a mass murderer in maximum security American prison, they have more rights than the people being sent there for a lifetime sentence.”
Tarlov’s remarks arrive just one day after Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) visited Abrego Garcia — a father of three from El Salvador who was living in the U.S. for 14 years and is under an immigration court’s protective order— in the country where he’s being held at a maximum security prison known for its brutal conditions.
Earlier in the program, Tarlov put co-host Dana Perino on blast for claiming that Abrego Garcia is affiliated with the gang MS-13, a claim that Trump officials’ have used to justify his imprisonment.
“His legal status ... was approved by the Trump administration in 2019 and every year since then, he has checked in with the Department of Homeland Security and no one has said anything about him being a gang banger,” Tarlov stressed.
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She further pointed to a 2019 accusation about Abrego Garcia by a now-fired Maryland police officer, adding that the claim is based on “double hearsay testimony” and the detective was later indicted for sharing sensitive information about an ongoing police investigation with a sex worker.
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