Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Viral Video of Biblical Song Angers DHS

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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.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/kilmar-abrego-garcias-viral-video-of-biblical-song-angers-dhs-11276396

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[BOSSHOG]

1. It's not fair

He gets to and we don’t. Lock em up. Hate him. Hate his family. Celebrate conservatism. Torture a non white human being. Lie. Waste money. Worship a convicted felon. Be stupid.

[EarthFirst]

2. Gag on this asshole!

I’ve got a racket all and a roll of duct tape; anything else you’d like to say?

[underpants]

3. He lip-synced. That's "trolling" but a classic sarcastic F YOU move

Abrego Garcia is an unavoidable blaring example of this Clustertrump’s overreach, incompetence, and (as usual always the downfall) hubris.

This was a royal screw up and they know it. They thought they could flush this human being away (as they see people) but he had nurse and lots of papers and it backed up right in their faces.

[Bev54]

4. Typical media BS

man who was mistakenly deported from the United States by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Bullshit, he was kidnapped and secreted out of the country, along with several others, to a torture prison, against explicit orders from the court.

[Beartracks]

5. The old "activist judge" canard.

Pfft.

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[Grins]

6. Do they even know the lyrics???

It’s a Jesus song!! Liberty university choir would sing this song.

To me it’s crap, but if this is what hurts McLaughlin’s fee-fees, that’s a personal problem, not legal or political.

[travelingthrulife]

9. I think the fact that he's still alive is what bothers them.

[SunSeeker]

7. Way to keep proving Kilmar's vindictive prosection claim, DHS assholes!

[travelingthrulife]

8. DHS seems to have had plenty of time to make their disgusting videos...