What did JD Vance claim about immigration on 1 Apr 2025?
JD Vance, Vice President of the United States (Trump administration) ·
according to the court document you apparently didn’t read he was a convicted MS-13 gang member with no legal right to be here.
The court documents the government filed cite no conviction. The 2019 immigration bond decision records that he had no criminal convictions, and its gang finding rested on a police field interview sheet.
The 2019 immigration judge bond decision the government filed in Abrego Garcia v. Noem records that 'He has no criminal convictions' and bases its finding that he was a gang member on a Form I-213 and a Prince George's County Police Department Gang Field Interview Sheet, not on any conviction; the Board of Immigration Appeals' 2019 decision, also filed, cites no conviction and records his argument that criminal records showed he had only been charged with traffic offenses (U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, case 8:25-cv-00951, Documents 11-1 and 11-2).
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