Democrats condemn the detention of ice while the DHS defends Ugandan deportation

EXCLUSIVE: The Ministry of Internal Security unleashes the Democrats who condemned the decision of the ice to hold Kilmar Abrego Garcia and deport it to Uganda.

Abrego Garcia is a national Salvadoran who was arrested by Ice on Monday during his registration at the agency’s office in Baltimore, Maryland, and he should be expelled in a third country, probably in Uganda.

“Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not and will never be a man from Maryland – he is an illegal criminal foreigner from El Salvador and a public security threat,” said a senior DHS in Fox News Digital in an exclusive declaration.

Ice stops Abrego-Garcia at the registration of Maryland, says the lawyer

Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer, speak to supporters outside a Baltimore ice field office, Maryland. (Fox News Digital / Breanne Deppisch)

“It is crazy that the politicians of the sanctuary have chosen to glorify and stand with a member of the Gang MS-13 on the security of American citizens. President Trump and secretary Noem will not allow this illegal foreigner, who is an American member of MS-13, a traffic of human beings, a domestic serial abuser and a predator of children, to terrorize American citizens.”

Earlier this year, Abrego Garica was expelled for the first time in Salvador to be an alleged gang member, which caused a national controversy which sparked visits to the country of Central America, notably by Senator Chris Van Hollen, D-MD. However, he ended up facing accusations in the United States for an alleged human smuggling after stopping the circulation of Tennessee in 2022.

Last week, Abrego Garcia returned to Maryland from Tennessee, and a judge magistrate ordered that if he was placed in police custody, he would need to have “access to his lawyers” in order to “prepare for the trial in this case”. His brief freedom was criticized following “the publicity judge of hungry Maryland” by the secretary of the DHS, Kristi Noem.

District Judge Paula Xinis ruled on Monday afternoon that Garcia Garcia could not yet be expelled in Uganda until his legal team could have a chance to fight him, according to several media.

Abrego Garcia appears at Ice Office in Baltimore in the middle of the deportation of Uganda

Senator Chris Van Hollen meets Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in a place not disclosed on April 17, 2025, in San Salvador, El Salvador. (The Senator Van Hollen office via Getty Images)

In a press release shared for the first time with Fox News Digital, DHS aims specifically to a handful of messages on X of Democratic legislators.

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“Ice holds Kilmar Ábrego García and refuses to answer questions from his lawyers – while Trump’s administrator continues to spread on his case. Instead of spitting unproven allegations on social networks, they must defend themselves or be silent in court.

“Trump’s administrator wrongly sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a horrible prison in El Salvadoran. Now, only a few days after finding his family, they try to deny his rights and deport him in Uganda. Kilmar – like everyone else – deserves a just audience to defend himself,” said Senator Elizabeth Warren, D -Mass.

The judge sets strict conditions for the release of Abrego Garcia while Trump officials are pursuing a case against him

Internal security secretary Kristi Noem blamed the “activist” judges for the release of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia on Friday August 22, 2025. (AP photo / Mark Schiefelbein; AP Photo / George Walker IV, file)

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“Let’s be clear: the expulsion of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Uganda has no meaning – it is not his country of origin. Nothing in this process has been fair. Ice the target with cruelty. This is the weaponry of the government, not justice,” wrote the representative Jasmine Crockett, D -Texas.

Breanne Deppisch of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.