A Tennessee Highway Patrol Officer said that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal alien who was deported to a Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration over his MS-13 ties, was likely engaged in human trafficking in a newly released body camera video.

The illegal alien, infamously and inaccurately referred to as a “Maryland man,” was pulled over by Tennessee Highway Patrol Officers in 2022 after the law enforcement agents suspected that he could be smuggling people.

One officer is heard in the body camera footage saying that Abrego Garcia was “hauling these people for money.” Abrego Garcia, who was driving a car with eight other people in it, had an invalid Maryland driver’s license, while none of the other men had licenses.

“He’s getting paid to haul these people, probably to Maryland, I would say,” the officer said of Abrego Garcia, who changed his story during his interaction with the law enforcement agents. “Sometimes they come in with dope,” the officer added, while a different member of the Tennessee Highway Patrol pointed out that the vehicle Abrego Garcia was driving appeared to have an extra row of seats added to it.

BREAKING: Body cam footage obtained by Tennessee Star shows Tennessee Trooper saying Kilmar Abrego Garcia “hauling these people for money” pic.twitter.com/4FHWOIjSz5

— Tennessee Star (@TheTNStar) May 2, 2025

The illegal alien first told law enforcement that he and the other men were “going back to work” in St. Louis, Missouri, where the men worked construction. Later in the encounter, Abrego Garcia said he was going to Maryland, where he lived, but that he and the other men would then return to St. Louis, Missouri, for a construction job. Abrego Garcia also said that he was driving his boss’ car from Houston, Texas.

The law enforcement officers asked Abrego to sit in the back of their patrol car, but did not handcuff him. The officers called the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), one source told Fox News, but they did not receive a response from ICE and were advised by the Biden-era FBI not to detain Abrego Garcia despite their suspicion that he was trafficking illegal aliens.

The footage emerged after Abrego Garcia was sent to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, a massive prison designed for members of criminal gangs like MS-13 and Barrio 18. His deportation became a political flashpoint, with Democrat politicians traveling to the Central American country to visit the illegal alien and call for his return to the United States.

Newly released court documents indicate that Abrego Garcia bragged that he could murder his wife and get away with it. “Me and my kids are afraid now. He kicked me, pushed me, slapped me in the face and threatened me,” the illegal alien’s wife said, according to the document. “I also have a [recording] that [he] told my ex-mother-in-law that even if he kills me no one can do anything to him.”

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration has to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States, but Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele quashed any speculation that he would send the man back to the United States in a meeting at the oval office last month. “The question is preposterous, how can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?”

General Motors will cut back on production at a truck plant in Oshawa, Ontario, eliminating a shift this fall due to President Donald Trump’s auto import tariff.

GM said that an “evolving trade environment” and lower demand led to the decision to end the shift at the plant, which produces Chevrolet Silverados, The Detroit News reported on Friday. The move will result in around 750 employees getting laid off, according to the union representing affected workers.

“These changes will help support a sustainable manufacturing footprint as GM reorients the Oshawa plant to build more trucks in Canada for Canadian customers,” the Detroit-based automaker said in a statement.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the news from GM is “extremely tough for the workers in Oshawa and their families.”

“These are hardworking people who have helped build Ontario’s auto industry,” Ford added. He then blamed Trump’s tariffs for causing “economic uncertainty and chaos.”

The Oshawa plant stopped producing new cars in 2019, but GM revitalized it just two years later and began making new trucks there.

“GM Oshawa was reopened thanks to the hard work of our members and significant investments by the federal and provincial governments based on a promise to maintain good jobs and production. We will not sit idly by as that promise is eroded one shift at a time,” said Chris Waugh, the chairman of Unifor, the Canadian general trade union.

Trump’s 25% tariff on auto imports has sent car manufacturers scrambling to move production to the United States or cut back on production costs. Last month, GM announced to its staff that it would ramp up production of light-duty trucks at its assembly plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The increased production at the Fort Wayne plant promises to add more temporary jobs and increase overtime opportunities for employees.

Foreign car makers are also looking to boost manufacturing and investments in the United States. German automaker Mercedes-Benz announced on Thursday that it will build another car in the United States, adding a “core vehicle segment” to its factory in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Bloomberg reported.

Trump has credited tariffs for bringing more manufacturing jobs back to the United States. After South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai announced a $21 billion investment in the United States over the next four years, Trump said that “tariffs very strongly work.”