Fox News host Jesse Watters has said that ‘everyone knows’ the ‘mistakenly’ deported ‘Maryland man’ was a gangster because of his Chicago Bulls hat. 

During Jesse Watters Primetime on Tuesday, the host claimed that the Chicago team’s basketball merchandise is an MS-13 gang identifier as he questioned the idea that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a real fan. 

‘Garcia is a Bulls fan, but he’s from El Salvador and he lives in Maryland, not Chicago. The Bulls lost 60 games in 2019, so why the hat?’ Watters queried. 

‘Can Garcia name anyone on the team? Anyone on any Bulls team besides Jordan?’ 

Garcia was deported in March to an infamous prison in El Salvador, in what Justice Department Officials have since acknowledged as a mistake. 

The Trump administration was told by the Supreme Court to ‘facilitate’ Garcia’s release, but the White House has since declared that Garcia is now out of its jurisdiction. 

Trump officials have doubled down on Garcia’s accused status as a member of the notorious gang and said that, in fact, no mistake was made. 

The Fox News host claimed on Tuesday that ‘everyone’ in El Salvador knows that wearing a Bulls hat ‘means you’re in MS-13.’ 

He then compared wearing Chicago Bulls ‘gear’ as a ‘Latin American illegal alien’ to wearing red in Compton. 

‘When you’re in Compton, you don’t accidentally wear red and say: “Oh, I didn’t know red was Bloods.” If you’re a Latin American illegal alien in Maryland, you don’t accidentally wear Chicago Bulls gear and hang around with high-ranking gangsters from MS-13.’ 

Watters discussed Garcia’s past in El Salvador, where, according to his lawyers, his family experienced violent threats from a local gang. 

‘This is the reason he had to break into the country. Are you ready? A local gang in El Salvador was shaking down his grandma’s tortilla shop, and his lawyers say if he gets sent back to El Salvador, he’s a dead mean,’ Watters said. 

‘It’s a tortilla blood vendetta,’ he added. ‘Seriously. So, who are Garcia’s attorneys who managed to get their client a hearing in the Supreme Court?’ 

Garcia’s case has drawn national attention as lawmakers continue to argue on the significance of the Chicago Bulls merchandise. 

But the outrage over the migrant’s removal sparked Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen to travel to El Salvador to aid Garcia.  

‘This is an administration who has lied about Mr. Abrego Garcia,’ Van Hollen said. ‘The Vice President of the United States tweeted out that he had a criminal record, that was a lie!’

‘They’re just lying, they’ve gotten caught lying, they don’t want to admit it,’ Van Hollen continued.

‘They have an obligation to bring him home, but I will say the President of El Salvador should not now take it upon himself to say that he is detaining him for one more day.’

Van Hollen concluded that he ‘understood’ that the attorney general said a plane would be provided to bring him home.

‘So, all the President of El Salvador has to do now is hand over and release an innocent man and let him come home to his family,’ he concluded.

Border Czar Tom Homan, however, fumed at the senator’s move and insisted it wouldn’t change anything. 

‘We’re not going to change anything,’ he said. ‘We remove terrorists in this country where they should be.’ 

‘I can’t believe that any Democrat politician does not want public safety threats out of the community,’ Homan fumed. ‘Their number responsibility is protection of the community.’ 

‘But they would they rather go down to El Salvador than fix the problem and just talk about in Maryland, fix the problem of Boston, fix the problem of Washington state,’ the border czar said of the migrant sanctuaries.

Homan, like many, also took issue with Garcia being referred to as a ‘Maryland man.’ 

‘The Maryland father, the Maryland illegal alien, not a father. The Maryland illegal alien … was arrested for murder and released to the public,’ Homan stated.

It makes ‘zero sense’ why Democrats want him to be released, the border czar continued.

A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman also hit out at those referring to Garcia as a ‘Maryland father,’ and even compared him to Osama Bin Laden. 

‘I think this illegal alien is exactly where he belongs – home in El Salvador,’ Tricia McLaughlin told Fox. 

‘He was in our country illegally. He’s from El Salvador, was born in El Salvador, and oh, the media forgot to mention he is an MS-13 gang member.

‘The media would love for you to believe this is a media darling and that’s just a Maryland father. Well, Osama bin Laden was also a father. And yet, he wasn’t a good guy, and they actually are both terrorists.’   

Van Hollen, meanwhile, pushed back on the administration in a video on Wednesday morning noting how he is visiting El Salvador to support his constituent and chart a path forward for his return to the U.S.

‘The goal of this mission is to let the Trump administration, to let the government of El Salvador know that we are going to keep fighting to bring Abrego Garcia home until he returns to his family,’ the senator said.

‘I hope to meet with representatives of the government, I hope to have the chance to actually see Kilmar and see what his condition is, but we are going to keep fighting because this is a miscarriage of justice.’

Despite his hopes to see the migrant, El Salvador’s government has already declared that they will not be letting Abrego Garcia go.

In the Oval Office on Monday, Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele led a united defense of their actions in the case. 

‘How can I return him to the United States?’ Bukele argued. ‘I smuggle him into the United States or what do I do? Of course, I’m not going to do it.’ 

‘The question is preposterous. How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?  I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.’ 

Trump supported Bukele’s claim and went further, lobbying the El Salvadorian leader to take more migrants and build more prisons hold them.

‘I just asked the president, you know, it’s this massive complex that he built, a jail complex. I said, “Can you build some more of them, please?”‘ Trump said.

He asked Bukele to take ‘as many as we can get out of our country that were allowed in here by incompetent Joe Biden, through open borders, open borders.’

The Trump administration has been paying the country millions to send deported migrants to the maximum-security prison. 

Garcia arrived in the United States illegally in 2011 at the age of 16 and joined his older brother Cesar, who is now a US Citizen in Maryland. 

He had been granted legal protection from being sent back to El Salvador in 2019 after an immigration judge ruled that he may be subject to gang persecution. 

That same year, he was arrested and was accused of being an MS-13 gang member. No charges were filed.

He attempted to seek asylum but was denied, and he married Vasquez Sura, a US Citizen, while still in jail.  

Garcia was later released, and ICE did not appeal. Since, he has checked in with ICE annually and was issued a work permit, according to court filings.

His lawyers claim Garcia has no gang affiliations, no criminal charges and has lived peacefully in Maryland with his family for 10 years. 

As deportations continue, many lawyers have hit out and said that anyone being told they should ‘leave the US immediately’ should still consult legal advice and have a right to due process. 

But Vice President JD Vance has labeled the arguments as ‘bulls***’ and said due process would only slow down Trump’s process. 

‘The American people elected the Trump administration to solve this problem,’ he said, noting that former President Joe Biden’s administration allowed ‘approximately 20 million illegal aliens’ into the US. 

‘The President has successfully stopped the inflow of illegal aliens, and now we must deport the people who came here illegally,’ he wrote on social media. 

Vance argued that Democrats and ‘people weeping over the lack of due process’ had no solution to the problem of massive illegal immigration, citing the need for drastic action to ‘deport at least a few million people per year.’

The system was ‘overwhelmed’ he argued, forcing the need for widespread immigration enforcement that he acknowledged would have errors.

‘What I am OK with is the reality that any human system will produce errors. Further, I accept the actual tradeoff: between not enforcing the law and enforcing the law. And I choose the latter despite the inevitable errors,’ he concluded.