Mark Pulliam, a retired attorney and Misrule of Law blogger, said the controversy surrounding Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s immigration case has revealed widespread corruption across U.S. institutions, from the legacy media to the judiciary and Department of Justice.
Pulliam first argued that immigration law in the U.S. has become so technical and convoluted that only specialized experts can fully understand it, making it easy for activists, lawyers, and the media to manipulate the facts and opening the door for false narratives—like the claim that Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported to El Salvador—to gain traction despite clear legal evidence to the contrary.
“Immigration law has gotten so super hyper-technical and complicated that it’s almost beyond the comprehension of anybody that’s not a specialist in immigration law, and of course very few people are. As a result, it’s hard for people to wrap their mind around the details and you can be easily misled into false narratives, and boy, have there ever been some false narratives,” Pulliam explained on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
Pulliam (pictured above) further accused legacy media of being corrupt and intentionally spreading misleading stories to harm President Donald Trump, using the “wrongful deportation” of Abrego Garcia narrative as an example.
“We have a corrupt media that reports what it wants to report and promotes anything that’s going to try to undermine President Trump or his platform. So as soon as this came out with the ‘Maryland dad false deportation’ story, it just took on a life of itself, which shows that legacy media is corrupt and knowingly promotes false narratives,” he said.
Pulliam also heavily criticized the federal judiciary, claiming many Obama-appointed judges are unqualified political activists who use the law to advance left-wing agendas.
He suggested that Maryland Judge Paula Xinis, who is overseeing Abrego Garcia’s immigration case, fits the political activist mold and is likely to issue a ruling based on political bias rather than legal facts.
“We have a corrupt judiciary. I would venture to say that nearly every judge Obama appointed to the federal bench is an unqualified leftist activist hack, and if you give them anything to work with, they will promote whatever result they think is going to harm Trump and his administration the most. Even the Supreme Court, I think, fell for this false narrative that facts don’t matter, only results,” Pulliam explained.
Pulliam also pointed to the politicization within the DOJ, explaining how career attorneys are influenced by leftist ideology rather than a commitment to justice.
He specifically suggested the DOJ lawyer who admitted Abrego Garcia’s “wrongful deportation” either misunderstood the case due to incompetence or deliberately misled the court for political reasons.
“In the Department of Justice, which you would like to think is full of high-minded career attorneys trying to protect truth justice in the American way, it’s not that at all, it’s become so politicized and chaotic that this inept lawyer who got up in court and said ‘yes, we made a mistake, we deported this guy falsely’ either he didn’t understand because he didn’t know the difference between this A file and the other file, or he got blinded by the politics of the situation,” Pulliam said.
“Unfortunately, this guy who had risen to a position of responsibility…is not that atypical of law graduates of his generation who have been indoctrinated by this leftist machinery we call legal academia,” he added.
Pulliam tied this problem to the broader issue of legal academia producing ideologically driven, left-wing lawyers for decades.
“Unfortunately, that is not going to change overnight. When we talk about how we need to hire more lawyers to do this and hire more lawyers to do that, where are we going to get right-thinking lawyers who have common sense? Because they stopped graduating people like that from law school probably 15 to 20 years ago,” he stressed.
Pulliam concluded by emphasizing how the “deep state” is still firmly in place, even during Trump’s presidency, as entrenched bureaucrats continue to undermine policies they oppose.
He argued that the Abrego Garcia case exemplifies how federal officials, like ICE’s Robert Cerna – who signed a declaration falsely claiming Abrego Garcia was barred from deportation to El Salvador – continue to push political narratives rather than follow the law.
“Many Americans think that when President Trump won the election, or certainly when he got sworn in, that the swamp would automatically drain itself. And it doesn’t. Even after President Trump got elected, and we saw the same thing in the first term, is that you have all of these deep state apparatchiks who remain in their jobs and they have burrowed deep into the federal government,” Pulliam said.
“Until we drain the swamp and get rid of all these people, we are not going to be in charge of our own government,” he warned.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
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