Abrego Garcia Makes TikTok Videos As DHS Stays Silent Under Gag Order

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been creating TikTok videos while the Trump administration has been forced to keep quiet under a federal judge’s gag order.

Abrego Garcia, one of the most high-profile illegal migrants living in the U.S., has taken to social media since his release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody earlier in December, according to his newly-minted TikTok account. The Salvadoran national, accused of participating in a years-long human smuggling operation, is posting Spanish-language sing-along videos while a free man.

“So we, at are under gag order by an activist judge and Kilmar Abrego Garcia is making TikToks,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Saturday in a public statement on X.

“American justice ceases to function when its arbiters silence law enforcement and give megaphones to those who oppose our legal system,” McLaughlin continued. 

 Abrego Garcia, also accused of being an MS-13 gang member and a repeat wife beater, has been battling the Trump administration in the courtroom since his deportation to El Salvador in March and subsequent return to the U.S. Federal prosecutors continue to seek his permanent removal from the country.

The Salvadoran national’s lawyers in August demanded that the Trump administration stop publicly calling him an MS-13 gangbanger, serial wife beater, human trafficker or other monikers associated with the accusations against him. U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw — appointed to the bench in Tennessee by President Barack Obama — ordered federal prosecutors in October