{"id":60860,"date":"2025-04-19T12:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T17:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60860"},"modified":"2025-04-19T12:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T17:27:38","slug":"wapo-how-a-defunct-gang-registry-helped-deliver-kilmar-abrego-garcia-to-a-salvadoran-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60860","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: How a defunct gang registry helped deliver Kilmar Abrego Garc\u00eda to a Salvadoran prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/immigration\/2025\/04\/19\/kilmar-abrego-garcia-ice-police-gang-registry\/\">How a defunct gang registry helped deliver Kilmar Abrego Garc\u00eda to a Salvadoran prison<\/a> by Katie Mettler, Mar\u00eda Luisa Pa\u00fal, Jasmine Hilton and Lateshia Beachum (\u201cFederal officials have launched a full-throated effort to label Abrego Garc\u00eda a gang member and \u2018a terrorist,\u2019 an argument based on a gang survey that was decommissioned amid questions over racial profiling.\u201d). A libel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The path to Kilmar Abrego Garc\u00eda\u2019s deportation to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador began six years ago, when a suburban Maryland police detective typed a critical allegation into a Gang Interview Field Sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAn active member of MS-13 with the Westerns clique,\u201d wrote the detective in 2019, after detaining Abrego Garc\u00eda at a Home Depot in Prince George\u2019s County while he stood in the parking lot looking for construction work. His proof: an unnamed confidential informant and Abrego Garc\u00eda\u2019s Chicago Bulls cap, which the officer wrote in his report was \u201cindicative of the Hispanic gang culture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: How a defunct gang registry helped deliver Kilmar Abrego Garc\u00eda to a Salvadoran prison by Katie Mettler, Mar\u00eda Luisa Pa\u00fal, Jasmine Hilton and Lateshia Beachum (\u201cFederal officials have launched a full-throated effort to label Abrego Garc\u00eda a gang member &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60860\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-arrests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60861,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60860\/revisions\/60861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}