Overview

• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said CBS removed parts of her remarks alleging Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 member, a human smuggler, a domestic abuser, and a requester of nude images from minors.
• CBS said the interview met newsroom standards and was shortened for broadcast time limits, with the complete video and transcript available on YouTube and CBSNews.com; the dispute follows Paramount/CBS’s July settlement with President Trump over separate editing claims.
• Attorneys for Abrego Garcia asked U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw to impose a gag order on senior officials including Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi, arguing their comments risk prejudicing the jury in his human-smuggling case.
• Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, returned to the United States in June, and indicted on two counts of conspiring to transport migrants; ICE re-detained him in Maryland, and a federal judge has temporarily barred his removal pending further proceedings.
• Immigration records show a 2019 judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals accepted findings that he was a verified MS-13 member, a characterization his lawyers dispute, while a DHS official publicly defended Noem’s references and criticized media coverage.