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He did nothing wrong, but Trump and his minions deported him. |
This week, the unpopular U.S. Supreme Court made the right decision.
In an unanimous 9-0 vote, the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration's illegal removal of a protected status.
Y'all voted for this.
Donald J. Trump won 49% of the Hispanic vote. Wondering how many of those living in Texas, California, North Carolina, Florida and Georgia feel now that his policies are affecting their lives?
Anyway, in the decision, the Trump administration illegally deported a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison. The Trump administration made a mistake and said basically they are not responsible for returning the man back to the United States.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran citizen who resided in Maryland, United States who was taken into custody on March 12, 2025, and on March 15, deported due to what the Trump administration called "an administrative error" and imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a Salvadoran maximum security prison. This was despite him having both a U.S. immigration judge's order protecting him from removal to El Salvador since 2019 and a wife and five-year-old child who are both American citizens.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis at a hearing Friday afternoon scolded the Justice Department for demanding more time to update the court on next steps after the department attempted to impose delays on the case.
The White House earlier Friday tempered expectations about the lengths it would go to in order to bring back Abrego Garcia.
“The Supreme Court made their ruling last night very clear that it’s the administration’s responsibility to facilitate the return, not to effectuate the return,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.
Garcia states that the Barrio 18 gang tried to extort his mother's business for money and threatened that if she did not pay the money they would make her sons join their gang instead. As a result, at the age of 16, Abrego Garcia fled El Salvador and illegally entered the United States in 2011. According to his lawyers, Abrego Garcia has previously testified about the Barrio 18 gang's attempts to recruit him in El Salvador.
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Kristi Noem once again trying cosplay tough gal. |
In 2016, Abrego Garcia met Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura, who would later become his wife.
In March 2019, Prince George's County, Maryland police arrested Abrego Garcia with three other men in a Home Depot parking lot where they were seeking work as day laborers. One of the men claimed Abrego Garcia was a "gang member," but The Atlantic reports that according to court filings, he offered no proof and police said they did not believe him. He was never charged with a crime in connection to his arrest.
Police handed custody of Abrego Garcia over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation proceedings. In those proceedings, the government claimed that he was a member of the MS-13 criminal gang because "he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie" and a confidential informant claimed that he was active with an MS-13 group based in New York. An immigration judge determined that the informant's claim was sufficient evidence for denying Abrego Garcia’s bond request, and another judge upheld that ruling, saying the claim that Abrego Garcia was in MS-13 for purposes of the bond determination was not clearly wrong. Abrego Garcia has consistently denied any connection to MS-13.
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The Trump administration will bring Abrego Garcia back but will delay it indefinitely. |
While awaiting resolution to his deportation proceedings, Abrego Garcia married his girlfriend in June 2019, and they had a child together later that year. His wife also had two children from an earlier relationship, and all three children have special needs. Abrego Garcia and his family live in Maryland.
In 2019, with his lawyer, Abrego Garcia fought allegations against him in deportation proceedings in court and applied for asylum. His request for asylum was denied, as one must submit an asylum application within a year of arriving in the U.S. However, the judge granted him "withholding of removal" status that would block his deportation to El Salvador due to the threat that gangs would pose to him, finding that "he was more likely than not to be harmed if he was returned to El Salvador." He was granted a work permit the same year. He has lived and worked legally in Maryland since.
According to his attorney, after Abrego Garcia's release from detention in 2019 until he was taken into custody in March 2025, his only encounters with law enforcement were his annual required check-ins with ICE.
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