Kilmar Abrego Garcia arrives with his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura in December. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The Department of Homeland Security’s complaint about being under a gag order on Saturday in its case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who the Trump administration illegally deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador earlier this year, likely violated the court order.

Tricia McLaughlin, the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the DHS, said that Abrego Garcia being able to make viral TikTok posts was unfair in a rant on X: “American justice ceases to function when its arbiters silence law enforcement and give megaphones to those who oppose our legal system.”

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. https://t.co/11pNrHQUK6

But this “gag order” isn’t specific to Abrego Garcia’s case. As a Saturday........

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