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House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green is calling on Tennessee authorities to provide unedited reports and footage from a traffic stop involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the MS-13 gang suspected of smuggling undocumented immigrants.
An edited version of the bodycam video has been made public, depicting the incident where Abrego Garcia, who had been erroneously deported to El Salvador during the Trump administration, was stopped by the Tennessee Highway Patrol in 2022 while transporting eight individuals in his vehicle.
In the clip, obtained by Fox News, a trooper can be heard saying that the 29-year-old Salvadoran “was hauling these people for money.”
Despite being a suspected gang member, Abrego Garcia was only given a citation for driving with an expired license and was allowed to continue on his way. However, sources revealed that there is a censored segment in the footage where troopers can be heard discussing contacting immigration authorities.
While a phone call was made, federal authorities didn’t show up, the outlet reported.
Green is now asking for “full” and “unredacted” versions of all footage and reports from the traffic stop, according to a copy of the Friday letter.
Abrego Garcia was pulled over for speeding, but authorities became suspicious when they saw eight other people in the van but no luggage — despite the group having been on the road for three days from Texas.
Abrego Garcia told one of the officers he was headed to Temple Hills, Maryland, “to bring in people to perform construction work,” according to a memo.
It was later discovered that the owner of the vehicle Abrego Garcia was driving was convicted of smuggling illegal migrants in 2020. Abrego Garcia told the responding officers that he was driving his boss’s car.
The convicted felon, Jose Ramon Hernandez-Reyes, recently told federal investigators that he previously operated a smuggling service based in Baltimore — and hired Abrego Garcia on “multiple occasions” to transport border crossers across the country, ABC News reported.
Green emphasized that the requested information will “shed light on, and ensure the end of, the reckless, open-borders policies of the Biden-Harris administration,” in a statement shared with The Post.
“We will get to the bottom of why Abrego Garcia was released by the Biden-Harris administration despite the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s suspicions of human trafficking,” said the Tennessee Republican.
He is also asking for a list of all FBI personnel who were involved in discussions to release Abrego Garcia after it emerged the bureau “made the decision not to detain him” at the time of the traffic stop, after the troopers contacted the feds.
Abrego Garcia was deported in March after President Trump invoked the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act, sending him to El Salvador’s “hellhole” megaprison before he was later transferred to a lower-security facility.
Federal officials admitted he was deported despite an administrative error.
The Supreme Court has ordered the White House to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return, but the Trump administration continues to argue they won’t bring him back.