Trump Adviser Has Bone-Chilling Threat For Americans Who Oppose Deportations

Sebastian Gorka is seen on set of "Candace" on November 01, 2021 in Nashville, Tennessee.One of US President Donald Trump’s cronies has heavily implied that Americans who demand due process for a Maryland father who was wrongly deported could meet his same fate.On Tuesday, Trump’s senior director for counterterrorism, Sebastian Gorka, appeared on Rob Schmitt Tonight on Newsmax and said that those who publicly criticise Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s incarceration in a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador could be committing a federal crime.This is despite the Department of Justice admitting that Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, was wrongly deported due to an “administrative error,” and the Supreme Court ordering the Trump administration to help to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States.“The taxonomy of American politics is dead,” Gorka said a little over two minutes into his interview. “It’s not left and right. It’s not even Republican or Democrat. There’s one line that divides us: Do you love America or do you hate America? It’s really quite that simple.”According to Gorka, who was born in the United Kingdom to Hungarian parents, those who “love America” include Trump, his administration and his supporters because they want to “protect” the US.Gorka then went on to describe those who “hate America” as anyone who opposes Trump and his administration’s actions by claiming they are “on the side of the cartel members, on the side of the illegal aliens, on the side of the terrorists.” Gorka, a former Newsmax host, then dialled up the autocratic tone of his argument to an unsettling level.“And you have to ask yourself, are they technically aiding and abetting them?” Gorka said of critics. “Because aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists is a crime in federal statute.”The implication of Gorka’s threat wasn’t lost on social media users on X, formerly Twitter.“This is how freedom of speech dies,” one user pointed out.“That’s the mark of authoritarianism. When you can’t win an argument, you criminalize the people who disagree with you,” another said.“They’re saying it — if you criticise them, you are ‘aiding and abetting’ terrorists,” another user echoed. “If you take a stand against them, you’ll be targeted too.”The Trump administration — including Gorka during his interview with Newsmax Tuesday — continues to claim that Abrego Garcia is affiliated with the gang MS-13.Abrego Garcia fled El Salvador as a teenager to escape violence from a local gang called Barrio 18 that was extorting his family’s business. In 2019, an immigration judge granted him special status known as “withholding from removal,” which prevented him from being sent back to El Salvador due to a “credible fear” of violent gang retribution.Before he was deported in March, Abrego Garcia was living in Maryland and apprenticing to become a sheet metal worker. He has not been charged with any crimes in the US.Related...Liz Truss Says Trump Is 'Right About Nearly Everything'. Here Are 7 Reasons Why She's WrongPutin Raves About Elon Musk And Says Trump's Right-Hand Man Is 'Incredible' For 1 ReasonUkraine Hits Back After Trump's Special Envoy Says Kyiv Should Give Up Land To Putin

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