April 18th, 2025

On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, amid numerous threats from abroad and pressing domestic issues, it’s outrageous that the media is fixated on Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant, documented wife-beater, and alleged MS-13 gang member. Garcia has been ruled deportable by immigration courts and the Department of Homeland Security due to his gang ties and illegal status. Despite clear evidence, the media ignores his criminality, and Democrats defend him. The ruling class protects Garcia while criticizing President Trump, yet it ignores Biden’s defiance of Supreme Court orders on student loans. Also, the 14th Amendment does not provide for birthright citizenship, contrary to media claims, and its authors never intended it to include such a right. At no time did the authors of the 14th Amendment ever mention birthright citizenship. For 40 years AFTER the ratification of the 14th Amendment no court had ruled, and no Congress had argued that there was something called birthright citizenship. Later, the Capital Research Center’s report, “When Charities Betray America,” examines how certain “pro-Palestinian” groups, specifically Within Our Lifetime (WOL), Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), and Code Pink, have increasingly promoted anti-American and anti-police rhetoric since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel. Analyzing thousands of social media posts, the study found a 3,000% surge in calls for violence and a 186% increase in anti-American and anti-police keywords among 496 groups and activists, many tied to nonprofits or charities. Finally, Jim Trusty calls in to explain that the DOJ’s decision to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, which raises complex legal issues, including federal jurisdiction over a traditionally state-handled crime.

Photo by Sen. Van Hollen’s Office

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. First of all, I hope you folks have a wonderful, wonderful Easter and have a wonderful celebration and family time. It is a beautiful time. And on Sunday. But the whole week, the whole weekend is to have a great time. And it’s fabulous to watch other people go to church. It’s a fabulous to watch how people all dress up on ice. Do you do that, Mr. Moore? Do you ever dress up real nice? And it’s real. It’s really nice. You know, folks. With all that’s going on in the world, all the threats that we’re receiving in this country from abroad, so much that goes on in life. The entire media focused on this. This guy Kilmer. Armando Braga, Garcia. Is really. It’s really a sin. It’s really disgusting. I’m watching TV, Mr. Producer, the first 10 minutes, this is what it’s about. The guy is a thug. The guy’s a wife beater. The guy has been dancing around Ms. 13 with a verified number. The guy is here illegally. He’s come here illegally a multiple times. Do we really have to prove he’s committed the crime of the century to deport him? Of course not. That’s not what immigration is about and that’s not what deportations about. And the president can make the decision. He doesn’t need any help from any federal judges. Somebody needs to look into that. Private citizens. And yes, that includes a senator not supposed to be running foreign policy. Our friends at the Daily CALLER Have a good piece. Borrego Garcia’s. Release documents here demonstrating his membership in Ms. 13 gang now. The media won’t even look. They want to look for this stuff. His wife’s complaint against him for. Assault and battery that was public. It was in the in the court system in the state of Maryland. It was Fox. It was Bill Malaysian who got it. The rest of the media. Not only don’t they get it, they don’t care. During his police interview. Immigration court rulings, Department of Homeland Security deportable inadmissible alien record highlighting his membership in the gang. Got that? Which is disputed in court or included in the release. Now you’re you’re listening to the same media that lied about Joe Biden’s competency. The same Democrats who lied about Joe Biden’s competency. So they will lie about anything and everything, folks, to you. They have no respect for you. None. So people say, where’s the proof? Okay, the proof is in the immigration court rulings at the Department of Homeland Security. In his deportable slash, inadmissible alien record, highlighting his membership in the Ms. 13 gang. Which has which he disputed in court being disputed all he wants. In a December 2019 decision, the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissed Garcia’s challenge to an immigration judges factual finding that he’s a verified member of Ms. 13. So it’s been adjudicated. The Immigration Court of Appeals rejected. Rejected his his defense. The board found the immigration judge appropriately considered allegations. Of gang affiliation against the respondent in determining that he has not demonstrated that he’s not a danger to property or persons. The double negative is not mine, it’s the Court and I’m quoting it. Officers found that Garcia’s loitering in a Home Depot parking lot on March 28, 2019, wearing, quote, a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie with rolls of money covering his eyes, ears and mouth of the presidents on the separate denominations. The initial Prince George’s County Police Department gang field interview sheet states wearing the Chicago Bulls hat quote represents that they are a member in good standing with the Ms. 13, the document states. I mean, he is in a parking lot in Maryland. Officers contacted a past proven and reliable source of information who advised that Garcia is an active member of Ms. 13 and the Western’s clique. The confidential source further advised this out of the court records that he is the rank of Shaquille, the moniker of Chili. The administration became embroiled in a legal dispute after Garcia, who entered the country illegally in 2011, was deported in March. Charles Salvador. As a result of an error in court records, they argued that Garcia could not. Relitigate the findings that he is a danger to the community. A lower court ordered his return, but the Supreme Court required it to clarify the order and direct the administration to facilitate his retweet, release. Facilitate. The Department of Justice indicated that it would appeal the amended order. Which directed the government to take all available steps to facilitate the return that panel. Ordered. That the Department of Justice do that and upheld the lower court. Just so you know. So what really is the issue here? Let’s use common sense. Let’s get out of the weeds. Let’s use common sense. The guy’s a bad guy. Is a violent guy. He’s tatted up with all this MS13 stuff. We do have actually an adjudication in immigration court and the Board of Appeals of the immigration court that concludes that despite his his claims that he was, in fact, part of Ms. 13. I have in front of me the form that was filled out by hand by his wife about his domestic violence. That he beat her, that he scratched her eyes, that he used a boot and so forth. And so it’s right there for anybody to read. And here’s the thing. You don’t even have to be a quote unquote, good person. You’re deportable because you’re here illegally. The amount of information that they have on this man far exceeds any standard, any barometer that’s required to deport somebody who’s here illegally, period. That’s the bottom line. Now the Supreme Court’s much language, its ambiguity to facilitate his return. Nobody knows what that means. Nobody. It’s a bureaucratic word that people use in the bureaucracy when they don’t want to actually facilitate anything. But they say be careful that you don’t cross in the separation of powers and interfere with the president’s foreign policy powers, which are exclusive. So they say one thing out of one side of their mouth and one thing out of the other. And if this is the way the Supreme Court’s going to mumble, if this is how they’re going to dance, we’re going to have definitely a constitutional crisis, not because of what the Democrats say, but because of the Democrats. And they’re judges. So anybody tells you he doesn’t have an affiliation with Ms. 13 is lying because we have a lower immigration court and the Board of Immigration Appeals that say they believe he did despite his protestations. And anybody says he’s a good father, maybe he is. But he was a lousy husband because he beat his wife more than once, according to her own written statement, in her own hand. This is the person the Democrats are fighting for. Van Hollen is fighting for. The media are fighting for. You understand? They do not share our sense of values. They do not share our belief system. They are liars. They are propagandists. They are demagogues. This guy Garcia should not return. And so I have a fundamental question. I’ll ask it rhetorically before we take our break. If a federal district court, that is the Lois court, the trial court, the litigation court. Has absolutely no authority to set policy. When it comes to this. Or anything else for that matter. But let’s focus on this and that The framers of the Constitution said they never wanted judges to set policy. And I hope you’ll watch my programs this week. And I’ll Life, liberty and liberty. And I’m going to dig into this like nobody ever has. That’ll be the Sunday show. Is a president required to file follow an order of a court. When that court is violating separation of powers. But the Supreme Court said, I don’t care what the Supreme Court said. I’m talking about the Constitution. Does he know? It’s a practical matter. Of course you’ll see the Republicans or buckle. The Democrats will become howling hyenas louder than they normally are. The media will tell us about Watergate and the right leaks and all the rest of it. So the the ruling class. The establishment will do everything they can to destroy Trump over this, and they’ll say he’s the one violating the Constitution. But you’ll notice when they talk about court orders, when it came to Joe Biden, who they said had his wits, when he didn’t have his wits again. They will lie and lie and lie. You notice when he ignored the Supreme Court and its opinion on student loans said he didn’t have the power to provide. Any kind of financial forgiveness he did in any way. He circumvented them. He went around them. He came up with a. Well, the pathetic excuse. Nobody called for his head. Nobody. Nobody said we were in a constitutional crisis. Well, I did, but nobody on that side. And so he got away with it. No big deal. We have a federal judge by the name of Boasberg in Washington, D.C., who literally ordered the administration to turn planes around in mid-air, bring back over 300 Venezuelan gang members, slash terrorists sent here, likely by the communist governor of Venezuela. He didn’t put it in writing is a technical point, which is preposterous. Especially when you’re talking about going from a lawyer in a courtroom to a vast bureaucracy to airplanes. The court said, and I have it in front of me, the Supreme Court said in a relatively short opinion. That he has no jurisdiction. None. Boasberg has no jurisdiction over this case. And yet Boasberg won’t let it go. See, the case is supposed to be in Texas, as I recall. Boasberg will not let it go. Is anybody talk about how he is violating the Constitution? No, not a word except me. Not a word. So we have that federal judge violating the constitution, the other federal judge violating the Constitution, and a third judge in Boston, Indira, whatever her last name is, it’s not Gandhi, I can assure you that. But it’s Indira something or other. She puts out a national. I guess it was a temporary injunction. From Boston. Preventing the Trump administration from returning 530,000 some people back to where they came from because he used an executive order, even though Biden used an executive order to bring them here behind our backs. Initially, you may recall under cover a dark. And he twisted. He bastardised the parole provision of our immigration laws. To do it. Trump says, You know what, I’m reversing. It’s an executive order. I’m reversing it with an executive order. And then the judge said, wait a minute. Due process. See the game. Due process. US. I told you, this is claret and piven. They’ve overwhelmed the system. The judges are working hand in glove. Even if they’re not speaking to each other, which they’re free to do, and I’m sure many of them are. They see what’s going on. And on top of these outrageous rulings now, these judges are placing penalties on lawyers and others in the government, in the Trump administration, who are fighting. Who are fighting to uphold immigration law and the Constitution. Separation of powers. Now they’re going to hold people in contempt. Now they’re going to have lawyers deposed. See my point. And this guy, this thug, Garcia. They stuck, Garcia. Next thing you know, the next Democratic convention, they’ll somehow bring him here in harbor speaking role. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
All of this this weekend on FOX. I mean, I’m going to be hammering away on a multiple subjects with tremendous guests. I hope you’ll join us. I know it’s the Eastern holiday weekend. That’s what we have DVR for. So this evening, even now. Why don’t you set your DVR for 8 p.m. Eastern Saturday and Sunday just so you don’t miss it? Because I think you’re going to really be intrigued, enjoying it and so forth. Like I say, the 8 p.m. slots, the toughest slot on TV, just like the 6 to 9 p.m. Eastern on radio’s the type of slot, but we don’t care. We plow ahead. And as I say, there are ways to record her ways to listen to this show outside the usual means. And I encourage you to to check those out. Okay. Birthright citizenship. We’ll be talking about that again. I’m not going to spend forever on it because I’ve only talked about it 412 times. You won’t find the phrase birthright citizenship in the Constitution because it doesn’t exist. Didn’t even cross the lips of the authors of the 14th Amendment. The 14th Amendment was written based on the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868. The purpose of that Civil Rights Act and the purpose of the 14th Amendment was to ensure that newly freed blacks who had been slaves. That not only would they have their freedom, but if they have children, their children of the United States, that is, they are born American citizens because the jurisdiction here is the United States. It’s not for foreigners who come here illegal or legal. It’s not for tourists who come. Here are diplomats who come here. It’s not from travel services that have special focus on bringing people over here who are pregnant so they have kids and that they become citizens. None of that was ever contemplated and has any basis in the 14th Amendment. I’ll continue with this and then we’ll be back. There’s so much to cover. We’ll be right back.

Segment 3
Now that people who hate the Constitution keep waving it around as justification for birthright citizenship. They do this all the time, do they not? They believe they can persuade people and persuade courts. And the Supreme Court is very amenable to this, unfortunately, that the radical left agenda is actually enshrined in the Constitution. And if it’s not, then they say, burn the Constitution. Look who wrote it. And then on and on and on. And this is very un stabilizing to a constitutional republic because we’re talking about the courts here. And the courts now have become the plaything of the American Marxists, the so-called progressives, just as Woodrow Wilson had urged. So we may get a good decision here and there, but it’s here and there. That’s the point. The 14th Amendment. Let me start it this way. The Civil War ends. In 1865. In 1866, the Republicans in Congress passed. The 1866 Civil Rights Act. That act, among other things, ensures that recently freed slaves and their children will be treated as treated as American citizens. As American citizens. That was the focus. And they said in that act, no foreign allegiances. Of anybody else. In other words, they have to have their allegiance to the United States. They pass it and they send it to the president to sign. The president’s no longer link and he was assassinated. It’s Andrew Johnson, a Democrat. Andrew Johnson is very hostile to reconstruction. Andrew Johnson vetoes the bill. The authors of the Civil Rights Bill of 1866, They say, well, you know, we have to do we need to go over his head and amend the Constitution. So then others came up with what would become the 14th Amendment, part of what we call the Civil War Amendments 13 14/15 Amendment. As an aside, the 14th Amendment has been used by the activist judiciary to run the country basically because of the language due process and equal protection. They create these fictions substantive due process as opposed to procedural due process. You know, whatever the mind can can come up with due process is due process. Not substantive due process, but I don’t want to get too much in the weeds here. This isn’t law school, so. Due process. 14th Amendment applies to black people and their children who were slaves. That’s it. Foreign aliens never came up. Let alone illegal aliens. Obviously, they couldn’t be citizens. So the amendment has absolutely nothing to do with what they’re talking about today. Nothing. And so when you have a reporter who goes on TV and says birthright citizenship is in the 14th Amendment, the reporter is either an imbecile or a liar. Well, it says jurisdiction there of the individuals in the United States jurisdiction there. It’s not a geographic jurisdiction. It’s not legal jurisdiction. You can have foreigners who come into this country who commit violent acts. That doesn’t make them a citizen because they’re in our country, does it? Now. They’re foreigners who commit violent acts. They’re prosecuted, thrown in prison or deported. They’re not they don’t become citizens because they’re here. Geographically are legally here. And I don’t mean legally in the sense that it’s legal. I mean, as a matter of law, that they’re here. What they meant by allegiance is utterly clear political allegiance. Again, I don’t mean political parties. Political allegiance. You can’t have an allegiance to two countries. You come here from Mexico, you come here from Switzerland, wherever you come here from. There has to be more than the fact that you’re here and you create jurisdiction for yourself, which they never would have agreed to. So everything I’m telling you now is. To offset that confront the challenge, what the left is saying, because none of it was even considered during this period of time, because it was unimaginable. Absolutely unimaginable. At no time did the authors of the 14 and the 14th met ever mention birthright citizenship. And for 40 years. For 40 years after the 14th Amendment. 40 years. Exactly what I’m telling you is how it was interpreted. It’s how it was understood. It’s how it was expressed by everybody. And then it changed in 18. I guess it was 89 or 98. I don’t have it in front of me. Because the court ruled because the Chinese immigrants were being treated so horrendously by Congress. That a child of a lawful immigrant. A child of a lawful immigrant. It’s a very, very broadly written opinion. I mean, it’s really actually an outrageous opinion. But they were trying to do justice. And so. There are ways to do justice without screwing up the Constitution, by the way, without writing extremely broad decisions. But that for another day. And so they’ve seized on that see that birthright citizenship for immigrants. Now think about how preposterous this is. So why not birthright citizenship when a diplomats here and they they bear a child here? Well, Mark, that’s because there’s still a citizen of another country and they don’t want that child to be a citizen of the United States. Not about want. It’s about the United States. Why doesn’t the United States claim that that child is a citizen? If somebody is a tourist. And they’re here and they’re not expecting a baby for a period of time. But they have a preemie and they do have a baby. Is that baby an American citizen? No, not automatically. So the diplomat. It’s not the tourist. It’s not. And so forth and so on. But for the illegal alien it is. Where’s that written? How did that happen? It’s not written anywhere. The State Department decided many years ago that it would issue citizenship papers. Two illegal alien children. That’s how it happened. There’s not even any federal statute that supports this. Anyway, there’s a federal statute, but it supports my interpretation. So when it comes to immigrants who aren’t illegal, we have an outrageous decision. And then when it comes to illegal immigrants, we have no decision except the processing, the bureaucratic processing by the Department of State. Donald Trump says, you know, we got to go back to first principles here and challenge this. Oh, we guys, I believe in the Constitution. He does believe in the Constitution. That’s the point. And I’m very concerned because a case like this takes real guts to get right. And I don’t believe the chief justice has it. I don’t believe Amy Coney Barrett has it. And I pray to God I’m wrong. Just my instinct could be wrong, usually. Right. But that’s my instinct. Based on what we’ve seen. And that’s why last night I said, All right, how about this, justices, if you’re listening? Grandfathering those who are here. But from the day forward on your opinion. Actually apply the Constitution. Apply it. Now. I don’t like it. But if they’re busy cutting, cutting deals, and if they don’t want to have a hard and fast rule that applies to people who are here now and born here now, then make get prospective. But don’t just sign up and say, Yeah. Not only that and illegal aliens do. Another whole is going to be blown through our immigration system. And on top of that, America. The courts are out of control. We have government by judiciary right now with government by judiciary. Thanks to the activists, thanks to the American Marxist. Thanks to them for putting all these hatchet jobs. On the trial level courts and now on the appellate courts. And we are one presidential election away from them owning the Supreme Court to. Got that. And then there’s no way around it. You’ll have a situation like you have in Israel. Israel is not a democracy anymore. It’s a judicial tyranny. So we’re still fighting this this judicial tyranny. And there are so-called legal analysts, self-described. Whether they’re writing for websites or they’re on TV or whatever they are, who are even saying to Trump, Stop fighting. Why are you picking a fight? He’s not picking a fight trying to get this right. Trying to get things back in order. And if not now, when? If not now, when? If not now. Never. That’s the answer to that. Jurisdiction does not mean you’re physically in the country because it wouldn’t make any sense. It wasn’t even discussed if you’re physically in the country. And yet that’s what it is today. An extremist radical position. We literally have a Department of Justice reporter here, and they’re telling us that it’s in the constitution. If you’re a reporter, if you’re a columnist, I don’t care if you’re a lawyer, a former federal prosecutor, a current defense lawyer. I don’t care if you’re if you’re a lawyer for McDonald’s. I don’t care if you’re standing on your head. If you glue the law degree to your forehead, none of that matters to me. Read the Constitution. Read the history of the amendment. Know what the hell you’re talking about? Yes. Because you have a legal degree doesn’t mean crap. Our country is full of lousy lawyers. Who think they know what the hell they’re talking about. And unfortunately, too damn many of them are on television. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
And then they they they try and position themselves through the slip and fall lawyers and their mouthpieces that would be hosts that the position somebody like I takes is a very extreme position in violation of the Constitution. If Donald Trump is trying to change the Constitution, you see by executive order, people don’t have a friggin idea what they’re talking about. Disgusting hacks. That’s what they are. That’s all they are. It’s like this guy Garcia. This guy Garcia had had his ass kicked out of here a long time. That prison is exactly where he belongs. In his home. Among the other wife, Beatrice. What does the Democrat Party, what have they done to fight these Venezuelan gangs? What have they done to fight Ms. 13? What have they done to deport people who shouldn’t be here? They’re the reason all these people are here, America. Chris Van Hollen. The Democrat Party with their media flacks covering for them, promoting them, celebrating them. They’re the reason we’re in this situation. Now, I’ve said here during the course of the weeks, in the months. And in the face of their. Oh, they’re worried about Mr. Garcia and the Constitution. We have 325,000 unaccompanied minors that the Trump administration is trying to find. Because under the Democrats, their media and the Biden regime. Somebody took them. Where are they? God knows what’s happening to them. And what about hundreds of thousands of women sold in the sex slavery, pornography? Where’s Chris Van Hollen? Where are the Democrats? Not a damn thing. They’re there defending this thug, Garcia. They’re trying to turn him into the pope. He’s a thug. That’s what he is. He’s a wife beater. Where the women’s groups. Where are the feminists? Where the hell are these people? They disappear off the face of the earth. No, they’re hacks. They’re Democrats. That’s it. That’s all that matters. It’s all the matters. Pathetic. And I’m supposed to worry about this guy, Garcia. And the court draw. Where are you going to follow his order? Trump going to do what he’s supposed to do. Courts aren’t even supposed to be involved in this under our Constitution. That’s right, Andy. Under our Constitution. Got it. Read. You might learn something. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Then you have Harvard College. How much time do I have, Rick? Okay. If Harvard College not pick this up after the break down. If a college president who says, look, you can’t bully us. Trump the government. We have academic freedom here. You can’t bully us. That’s what dictators do. Dictators. What’s Trump trying to do? He says you get $2.2 billion in taxpayer monies. So we have a say in some of what you. That’s for sure. We learned that from the Democrats. You’re the ones that have always used financial aid. His way to direct policy. But it’s worse than that. You also are tax exempt. You’ve built up a $53 billion in reserves, endowments that are untaxed. That’s a privilege. That’s not a right. The 2.2 billion you get is a privilege. It’s not a right. We’ve told you you’re not doing Butkus. To deal with the widespread cancerous anti-Semitism on your campus. And we’ve also told you that you put this in, I’ll take it out. Affirmative action of this kind is unconstitutional. You can’t do it through the back door like this. It’s a colorblind society. Everybody gets a shot. It doesn’t mean you can’t look at their backgrounds and make determinations like this. But DEA is a systematic system. It’s a systematic process. I should say it’s unconstitutional. So from our perspective, we’re not giving you any money till you cut it out. Then you stop chasing the Jews. And. We’re taking your tax exempt status away. Because just like Bob Jones. In North Carolina. Just like that tax status there was taken away your behavior. The violates the civil liberties of many, many people. And so you have people who are defending Harvard. They have a right to do this. Well, then do it. But you don’t get taxpayer subsidies and you don’t get a tax exempt status. B is bigoted and racist and anti-Semitic as you want, but not on the public’s dime. Now, what you’re going to learn over the weekend on my Fox shows and I encourage you again, go ahead and set your DVR if you don’t think you can watch them live. I like you to watch it live, but you’re going to learn about the Nazi influence at Harvard. And I’ve talked about this before, but I’m going to expand on it. That’s right. The Third Reich, the Nazi influence in Harvard, in the thirties. Before the war, some to some extent after we were attacked on Pearl Harbor. Most of it in the thirties. Even when the persecution of the Jews and other minorities had had come to be known. So The New York Times covered it up, and Harvard was actually inviting into their campus, into our country professors who were known mouthpieces for Hitler in the Third Reich. They actually brought in a Sikh, a senior official who was under Hitler and celebrated the individual. And I could go on and on on. That is the history of Harvard. That is the history of Harvard. All you Jews who graduated from Harvard, all you billionaires giving to Harvard who are Jewish. Shame on you. You don’t even know what the hell this institution has stood for for a hundred damn years. Columbia University. Became the center of Marxism. German Marxism. The Frankfurt Institute and the others. They came into our country. Several of them became professors and set up programs at Columbia University. That’s why you see the fusion of Marxists and Islamists at Columbia University. That’s why you see the sympathy for anti-Semitism and racial discrimination at Harvard. I’ll be right back.