If you believe anything that JD Vance has to say, you really are mentally challenged.
And people wonder how Hitler and Nazi Germany happened.
Vice President JD Vance weighed into the case and
falsely said on X Tuesday that Garcia was a "convicted MS-13 gang member." Garcia has no criminal convictions in the U.S. or in El Salvador, his legal team said in the lawsuit.
"We disagree that he is an MS-13 gang member. The only basis of his gang membership was a
confidential informant, there was never any hard and fast proof," Garcia's attorney, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, said in a statement to NBC News in response to Vance's posts on X.
"There is a judicial process. They could have gone back to the judge who in 2019 gave him an order of protection and could have asked that judge to lift that order. They didn't do that, they just put him on an airplane," Sandoval-Moshenberg added.
On March 12, after finishing his shift as a sheet metal worker and picking up his child, Garcia was pulled over and arrested by Homeland Security agents, with one of them telling him his "status has changed,"
a lawsuit calling for his release from last week shows.
ICE officers allegedly told him that his wife had to collect the couple's child within 10 minutes or he would be handed over to Child Protective Services, the filing says.
She arrived and found Garcia "confused, distraught and crying," but she received no explanation for his arrest, the filing says.
Garcia was interviewed and repeatedly asked about gang affiliations but told his wife that he was due to appear before an immigration judge and expected to be released. He then called her from a detention center in Texas, telling her he was about to be deported, the filing says.
Garcia's lawsuit accuses the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, and several cabinet members named as defendants of deciding to deport him without following the law, in full knowledge that "El Salvador tortures individuals detained in CECOT."
"Upon information and belief, they did so knowing and intending that the Government of El Salvador would detain Plaintiff Abrego Garcia in CECOT immediately upon arrival," the lawsuit said.
The government's Monday court filing said that Garcia's legal team "have not clearly shown a likelihood that Abrego Garcia will be tortured or killed in CECOT."
A man was sent to El Salvador due to 'administrative error' despite protected legal status, filings show 
