(TJV NEWS)A growing body of evidence has now shattered the carefully crafted narrative surrounding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the so-called “Maryland Dad” once portrayed as a victim of wrongful deportation under the Trump administration. As new court documents and sworn testimony reveal, Garcia was not an innocent family man unjustly targeted by immigration enforcement, but a key player in an organized human smuggling network with ties to the violent MS-13 gang.

Convicted Smuggler Confirms: Garcia Was Hired for Multiple Operations

In a bombshell development first reported by The Tennessee Star, convicted human trafficker Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes has admitted under immunity to hiring Garcia for multiple human smuggling runs across the United States. Reyes, a repeat border violator, was previously convicted in 2020 for smuggling illegal aliens and served only 18 months before being deported. He illegally reentered the country and is now cooperating with the DOJ from the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Alabama.

Reyes’s testimony directly implicates Garcia in repeated smuggling operations stretching back to 2015—just three years after Garcia allegedly entered the country illegally himself.

2022 Traffic Stop Now Seen as Smoking Gun
Garcia’s criminal activity came to light during a November 30, 2022 traffic stop by the Tennessee Highway Patrol. Troopers pulled him over for speeding and swerving and found him transporting nine illegal immigrants in a single vehicle—none of whom carried luggage, all claiming Garcia’s address as their destination.

Bodycam footage, obtained by Fox News Digital through public records requests, revealed Garcia carrying $1,400 in cash and driving on a fraudulent Maryland license. He initially told troopers he was coming from St. Louis and heading home to Maryland, before changing his story to say he was going to work a construction job.

Troopers immediately suspected human trafficking. “He’s hauling these people for money,” one officer remarked.

When asked whose car he was driving, Garcia identified the owner as his “boss”—later confirmed to be Reyes, the convicted trafficker.

FBI Ordered Garcia Released Despite Overwhelming Evidence
Despite the clear red flags—fraudulent documents, cash, contradictory stories, and a match to known smuggling patterns—the FBI, under the Biden administration, astonishingly ordered Tennessee officials to release Garcia. ICE reportedly failed to respond at all.

The Gateway Pundit notes that DHS has confirmed troopers suspected Garcia of trafficking at the time of the stop. Still, no federal action was taken, even as Reyes, the car’s owner, had been on record as a convicted human smuggler.

Gang Ties and Legal Evasions
Court documents and investigative sources cited by The Star and Gateway Pundit reveal that Garcia is a known associate of the violent transnational gang MS-13, further deepening concerns about federal inaction in his case.

While mainstream media outlets painted Garcia’s March 2024 deportation under the Trump-era order as an unjust removal of a family man, the full truth paints a far darker picture. Garcia was deported to El Salvador despite a 2019 order containing a “withholding of removal” clause. He later claimed the deportation violated that clause—though the growing evidence of criminal activity raises serious questions about whether those protections should have ever applied.

The Narrative Unravels
The popular narrative of a wrongfully deported “Maryland Dad” is now being exposed as a calculated misrepresentation, with key facts suppressed or obscured. With firsthand testimony from a convicted smuggler, corroborating bodycam evidence, and damning DHS confirmations, the truth is clear: Garcia wasn’t a victim—he was a smuggler embedded in a violent network.

As The Gateway Pundit has repeatedly emphasized, the facts in this case were deliberately buried to promote a sympathetic narrative. But with these latest revelations, the truth is no longer deniable

The Democratic Party has used his deportation as a key talking point in their political battle against Trump, coordinating talking points with the media, portraying Garcia as an innocent “Maryland Father” wrongfully deported and ” denied due process”. This elaborate talking point filled with intellectual dishonesty is backfiring as the truth about Gatcia continues to surface.