False2025-04
What is circulating
“In an X post on 1 April 2025, Vance said Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man deported to El Salvador, "was a convicted MS-13 gang member with no legal right to be here."”
Claimed by JD Vance · social media
The facts
PolitiFact rated the claim False. PolitiFact found no court record of any conviction, and his lawyer said he had never been convicted of any crime. The gang allegation came from a single informant during a 2019 police questioning and was cited in immigration bond denials in 2019, which are not criminal proceedings.