Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Viral Video of Biblical Song Angers DHS [View all]
Source: Newsweek
Dec 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM EST
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin voiced her anger on social media over Kilmar Abrego Garcia "making TikToks" while the department remains under "gag order by an activist judge."
Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man who was mistakenly deported from the United States by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), had released a video of him lip syncing to the Spanish song "Himno de Victoria," or "Hymn of Victory," by Danny Berrios.
McLaughlin wrote in a post on X: "So we, at @DHSgov, are under gag order by an activist judge and Kilmar Abrego Garcia is making TikToks. American justice ceases to function when its arbiters silence law enforcement and give megaphones to those who oppose our legal system." Newsweek has contacted the DHS outside of regular working hours via email for comment.
Why It Matters
Despite being legally protected from deportation by a judge in 2019 and having lived in Maryland for years with his U.S. national wife and child, Abrego Garcia was sent to a notorious detention center in El Salvador earlier this year. His case has stretched across multiple federal courts: the Supreme Court ruled his deportation was illegal and judges ruled in the summer that he must be released from custody and returned to Maryland.
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