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Kilmar Abrego Garcia arrives with his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura in December. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Department of Homeland Security\u2019s<\/span> complaint about being under a gag order on Saturday in its case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who the Trump administration illegally deported to a notorious prison<\/a> in El Salvador earlier this year, likely violated the court order.<\/p>\n

Tricia McLaughlin, the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the DHS, said that Abrego Garcia being able to make viral TikTok posts<\/a> was unfair in a rant<\/a> on X: \u201cAmerican justice ceases to function when its arbiters silence law enforcement and give megaphones to those who oppose our legal system.\u201d<\/p>\n

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So we, at @DHSgov<\/a>, are under gag order by an activist judge and Kilmar Abrego Garcia is making TikToks. <\/p>\n

American justice ceases to function when its arbiters silence law enforcement and give megaphones to those who oppose our legal system. https:\/\/t.co\/11pNrHQUK6<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) December 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

But this \u201cgag order\u201d isn\u2019t specific to Abrego Garcia\u2019s case. As a Saturday court filing states, local criminal rule in the Middle District of Tennessee already blocks DOJ and DHS employees from making extrajudicial remarks that will \u2018have a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing\u201d a defendant\u2019s right to a fair trial. In other words, it is not politically motivated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McLaughlin\u2019s post boosted another post<\/a> calling Abrego Garcia an \u201cMS-13 terrorist.\u201d The Trump administration has accused<\/a> Abrego Garcia of being a member of MS-13, which a federal judge has ruled as unfounded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the Court to find that Abrego is member of or in affiliation with MS-13, it would have to make so many inferences from the Government\u2019s proffered evidence in its favor that such conclusion would border on fanciful,\u201d the district judge wrote<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Abrego Garcia\u2019s defense team accused<\/a> the US government of violating the court order, citing that Chief Border Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino, who has overseen<\/a> the immigration raids in Los Angeles<\/a> and Chicago<\/a>, called Abrego Garcia an \u201calien smuggler,\u201d \u201cwife beater,\u201d and an \u201cMS-13 gang member\u201d on national news.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Abrego Garcia has no criminal record, yet the attempts to justify his deportation have continued for months<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Abrego Garcia was deported to the Salvadoran Terrorism Confinement Center in March, a prison that Mother Jones <\/em>and other media organizations have reported<\/a> on as inflicting torture, due to \u201can administrative error<\/a>.\u201d Following a court order and public backlash, the Trump administration brought him back to the US in June\u2014but issued an arrest warrant against him on human smuggling charges in Tennessee.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Abrego Garcia has rejected the accusations and said<\/a> that prosecutors were vindictively targeting him. A federal judge found that he has sufficient evidence to hold a hearing on the issue, which is scheduled<\/a> to take place in late January.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Abrego Garcia\u2019s case demonstrates that the Trump administration is pursuing policies such that no immigrant living in the country can feel safe. As my colleague Isabela Dias wrote<\/a> earlier this month, \u201cEvery disturbing news report about a wrongful deportation<\/a> or military-style raid of an apartment building should come as a reminder that the US government is using its prosecutorial discretion\u2014it is choosing<\/em>\u2014to normalize casual cruelty and overt racism. And it\u2019s doing so ostensibly in the name of \u201cprotecting<\/a>\u201d the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n