House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green is demanding that Tennessee authorities hand over unredacted reports and video from alleged MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s traffic stop, where he was suspected of trafficking illegal migrants, The Post has learned.
Edited bodycam footage has been released showing the moment Agrego Garcia — who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration — was pulled over by the Tennessee Highway Patrol in 2022 with a carload of eight people.
In the clip, obtained by Fox News, a trooper can be heard saying that the 29-year-old Salvadoran “was hauling these people for money.”
The alleged gang member was ultimately let go with a citation for driving with an expired license. However, a source told Fox News that in a redacted portion of the video, troopers talked about calling immigration enforcement officials.
While a phone call was made, federal authorities didn’t show up, the outlet reported.
Green is now asking for “full” and “unredacted” versions of all footage and reports from the traffic stop, according to a copy of the Friday letter.
Abrego Garcia was pulled over for speeding, but authorities became suspicious when they saw eight other people in the van but no luggage — despite the group having been on the road for three days from Texas.
Abrego Garcia told one of the officers he was headed to Temple Hills, Maryland, “to bring in people to perform construction work,” according to a memo.
It was later discovered that the owner of the vehicle Abrego Garcia was driving was convicted of smuggling illegal migrants in 2020. Abrego Garcia told the responding officers that he was driving his boss’s car.
The convicted felon, Jose Ramon Hernandez-Reyes, recently told federal investigators that he previously operated a smuggling service based in Baltimore — and hired Abrego Garcia on “multiple occasions” to transport border crossers across the country, ABC News reported.
Green emphasized that the requested information will “shed light on, and ensure the end of, the reckless, open-borders policies of the Biden-Harris administration,” in a statement shared with The Post.
“We will get to the bottom of why Abrego Garcia was released by the Biden-Harris administration despite the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s suspicions of human trafficking,” said the Tennessee Republican.
He is also asking for a list of all FBI personnel who were involved in discussions to release Abrego Garcia after it emerged the bureau “made the decision not to detain him” at the time of the traffic stop, after the troopers contacted the feds.
Abrego Garcia was deported in March after President Trump invoked the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act, sending him to El Salvador’s “hellhole” megaprison before he was later transferred to a lower-security facility.
Federal officials admitted he was deported despite an administrative error.
The Supreme Court has ordered the White House to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return, but the Trump administration continues to argue they won’t bring him back.
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