Star witness against Kilmar Abrego Garcia won't be deported, court records show
Source: AP
Updated 3:38 PM EDT, June 29, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Court records show that the Trump administration has agreed to spare from deportation a key witness in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in exchange for his cooperation in the case.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes, 38, has been convicted of smuggling migrants and illegally reentering the United States after having been deported. He also pleaded guilty to “deadly conduct” in connection with a separate incident where he drunkenly fired a gun in a Texas community.
Records reviewed by The Washington Post show that Hernandez Reyes has been released early from federal prison to a halfway house and has been given permission to stay in the U.S. for at least a year. Prosecutors have identified Hernandez Reyes as the “first cooperator” in the case against Abrego, according to court filings.
The Department of Homeland Security maintains that Hernandez owned the SUV that Abrego Garcia was allegedly using to smuggle migrants when the Tennessee Highway Patrol stopped him in 2022. That traffic stop is at the center of the criminal investigation against Abrego Garcia. Hernandez Reyes is among a handful of cooperating witnesses who could help the administration deport Abrego Garcia.
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(to instill fear)
But their concocted plan backfired and then backfired again, and then backfired even more when the SCOTUS semi-threw them under the bus... So in their arrogance of going all the way out on a limb, instead of conceding and moving on, they doubled and tripled down, being forced to make up all this shit to justify their reality show staging. 
