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CNN Can’t Let ‘Maryland Man’ Narrative Go

"The Maryland man brand lives on!"

By  Virginia Kruta
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CNN Can’t Let ‘Maryland Man’ Narrative Go
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - AUGUST 25: Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks during a rally and prayer vigil for him before he enters a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office on August 25, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland. Three days after being released, Garcia has been detained again, as the U.S. Government is threatening to deport Garcia, a Maryland construction worker from El Salvador, to Uganda after he rejected a plea deal to be charged with Human Smuggling and deported to Costa Rica. Earlier this year Garcia was wrongfully deported to the notorious anti-terrorism prison CECOT in El Salvador. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made good on a promise to detain and then deport Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia, CNN still couldn’t let go of the “Maryland man” narrative with which legacy media outlets have flooded the airwaves since his story first made the evening news.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, the Trump administration is asking that Abrego Garcia be deported to Uganda — but his attorneys have already filed a new lawsuit asking that he be kept in the United States while they contest that order.

CNN reported on the latest turn of events, but could not let go of the “Maryland man” narrative:

Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was unlawfully deported to El Salvador earlier this year, was taken into custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement after turning himself in to a facility in Baltimore.

A number of others dropped the nearly-ubiquitous term, but most of them did so in mocking tones:

“Goodbye, ‘Maryland Man,'” Townhall posted.

Several shared video footage of a press conference where Abrego Garcia pleaded with the public for support as he fights the deportation order — and most pointed out the fact that he gave his remarks in Spanish, arguing that a person who was truly from Maryland might have done so in English.

“How many ‘Maryland Men’ can’t speak English?” one asked.

“The Maryland man brand lives on!” Fox News National Correspondent Bill Melugin added.

Abrego Garcia, a suspected MS-13 gang member and human trafficker, was initially deported to a Salvadoran prison, but was brought back to the United States — thanks in large part to the elected Democrats who went to the mat on his behalf and the media outlets that helped to paint him as an unwitting victim in what they suggested was President Donald Trump’s plan to deport as many people as possible.

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