By Katherine Tinsley
2:07am PDT, Apr 24, 2025
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Laura Ingraham grilled Yassamin Ansari on the Tuesday, April 22, episode of The Ingraham Angle.
"I am very interested in Democrats caring about due process for illegal aliens. What process do you think is still due an individual who two courts found had reasonable belief to believe he had an affiliation with MS-13? Whose wife initially said had scratched her and caused bruising on her body? What process would make you feel like the Constitution and our framers' understanding of it would be fulfilled?" Ingraham asked Ansari of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported without being convicted of a crime.
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The Donald Trump administration has called Kilmar Abrego Garcia's deportation an "administrative error," but they've made no effort to bring him back to the U.S.
"Laura, you and I can disagree on, you know, this individual in particular. I'm not here to really advocate for one person," Yassamin Ansari stressed, adding "that needs to happen in court."
"You went to El Salvador, what are you talking about? You went to El Salvador!" Laura Ingraham argued. "Now you are saying it's not about him? Of course it's about him. You went to El Salvador for a political stunt, and now you are saying it's not about him."
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Yassamin Ansari clarified that she visited South America to push for Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case to be put through the standard legal process.
"To advocate for due process," Ansari clarified. "Laura, it is about a rule of law. This is a bipartisan issue. It transcends partisan politics."
"That's why a conservative-leaning Supreme Court has said that Trump must facilitate the return of this individual," she noted. "This is very dangerous. We are turning into an authoritarian country and there are Americans from all across the political spectrum who are deeply concerned about this."
"My office has not received more calls about any other issue since I have been a congresswoman than this one," she alleged.
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While Yassamin Ansari tried to make her point, Laura Ingraham asked the congresswoman about an illegal immigrant in Maryland who was charged with murder, but the Democrat said the comment was "a distraction from the main issue."
"Distraction?" Ingraham snapped. "I know you don't mean that American citizens are distractions. Victims are distractions?"
"You are changing the subject," Ansari fired back. "Today, we are here to talk about the lack of due process for an individual who was illegally deported from this country."
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Things quickly escalated between the two women, who ended up loudly talking over each other.
"Just wait. Take a breath," Laura Ingraham shouted.
"What you care about is an illegal immigrant's rights to be here ad infinitum," Ingraham concluded. "We got it. You will never support the deportation of this individual. That is the truth."
