Kilmar Abrego Garcia 101
Updates since publishing:
4/17/2025 -
Marlyand Senator Chris Van Hollen meets with Garcia, confirming he is alive. It is reported by Van Hollen that Garcia has been moved to a new facility in El Salvador.
Source: Van Hollen’s Twitter
Source: BBC via MSN
President Bukele and President Trump mock Van Hollen and Garcia.
Source: Bukele’s Twitter
Source: Trump’s Truth Social
President Trump posts a clearly doctored photo of a man’s hands, claiming it is Garcia’s hand with an “MS-13” tattoo.
Note: I am professionally skilled in Photoshop and this photo is the laziest attempt at a doctored photo one can make. Trump is lying intentionally. He is slandering Garcia and is willing to let Garcia die, as well as the scores of others he’s sending to the concentration camp in El Salvador.
Source: Trump’s Truth Social
April 20, 2025 -
Trump wishes a “Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country.”
Source: Trump’s Truth Social
Original post:
Pre-2011 –
Garcia and his family reside in El Salvador, notoriously overrun by violent gangs. His family is extorted and he is threatened by the gang Barrio 18.
2011 -
Garcia illegally immigrates to the United States at the age of 16 to escape gangs. He goes to Maryland to live with his brother, a U.S. Citizen.
2019 –
An undercover informant accuses Garcia of being a member of the gang MS-13 in New York, where Garcia has never lived. He was also accused of “wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie”. This was the basis of Garcia’s subsequent arrest. ICE claimed Marlyand police had confirmed his gang membership. After a hearing, Garcia was released and a court order barred his deportation to El Salvador.
Source: AP
June 2019 –
Garcia marries Vasquez Sura. They now have 3 children, all of whom have special needs.
Source: Newsweek
2021 -
Garcia’s wife accuses him of multiple instances of physical abuse, including hitting her with his work boot and hitting her face, leaving a black eye. She sought and received a restraining order against Garcia, but eventually withdrew her claims.
She released a statement on this inicident:
"After surviving domestic violence in a previous relationship, I acted out of caution following a disagreement with Kilmar by seeking a civil protective order, in case things escalated," she said. "Things did not escalate, and I decided not to follow through with the civil court process. We were able to work through the situation privately as a family, including by going to counseling."
"Our marriage only grew stronger in the years that followed. No one is perfect, and no marriage is perfect. But that is not a justification for ICE's action of abducting him and deporting him to a country where he was supposed to be protected from removal. Kilmar has always been a loving partner and father, and I will continue to stand by him and demand justice for him," the statement adds.
Source: Fox News
Source: Newsweek
March 15, 2025 –
Garcia is arrested after being pulled over. His non-verbal Autistic 5-year old son is in the car. He is sent to a detention facility and 3 days later deported to El Salvador, in violation of his non-deportation order from 2019. He is given no hearing or trial. He is deported alongside a large number of other immigrants, 90% of whom have no criminal record.
He arrives at CECOT, the notorious El Salvador mega-prison setup by President Bukele in 2022. It houses more than 14k prisoners, many of whom are violent gang members. Trials are frequently held “en masse” with no opportunity for defense.
Prisoners who arrive in CECOT are never allowed to leave, under any circumstances.
It is a concentration camp.
Source: Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia
Source: Bloomberg
March 31, 2025 -
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials admitted in a court filing on Monday to an “administrative error” in deporting him.
Source: AP
April 10, 2025-
The Supreme Court of the United States orders the Trump Administration to “facilitate” the return of Garcia to the United States. There is debate over this terminology, with both Garcia’s defense and the Trump Administration claiming victory. The Supreme Court also notes: “The United States acknowledges that Abrego Garcia was subject to a withholding order forbidding his removal to El Salvador, and that the removal to El Salvador was therefore illegal.”
Source: Supreme Court Decision in Noem v. Abrego Garcia
April 14, 2025 –
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accuses Garcia of being an MS-13 member and a human trafficker without evidence.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller says the Supreme Court order does not compel the Administration to take action. He further states that Garcia is “is a member of MS-13, which—as I’m sure you understand—rapes little girls, murders women, murders children, is engaged in barbaric activities in the world.”
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia Mclaughlin compares Garcia to Osama Bin Laden.
Source: Department of Homeland Security
President Bukele meets President Trump in the White House.
Bukele calls Garcia a “terrorist” and lies in saying he has no authority to return Garcia to the United States.
President Trump agrees and claims he has no authority to bring Garcia home, due to the sovereignty of El Salvador.
Source: Raw video of interview
April 15, 2025 –
Garcia’s wife says ““I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive,” she said. “Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn’t forgotten about you. Our children are asking: When will you come home?”
Source: Video of statement
April 16, 2025 –
Attorney General Pam Bondi says “that woman that he is married to and that child he had with her, they are safer tonight because he is out of our country and sitting in El Salvador where he belongs.”
Source: The Sean Hannity Show via Mediaite
Trump will deport American citizens.
“The homegrowns are next. You gotta build about five more places [mega prisons]”.
Trump to Bukele, April 14, 2025
Source: Raw audio
“If it’s a homegrown criminal, I have no problem.”
Trump during Bukele visit / when asked if he would deport American citizens. April 14, 2025
Source: Video
“I call em’ homegrown criminals…We are looking into it. And we want to do it. I would love to do that.”
Trump to Rachel Campos-Duff / when asked if he would deport American citizens. April 15, 2025
Source: Fox News interview
Trump has inconsistent views on who “homegrown criminals” are. For example,
January 20, 2025 -
Trump pardons almost all January 6 offenders, including those accused of planning or committing violent crimes, such as:
Stuart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers Militia
Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the Proud Boys
David Nicholas Dempsey
Peter Schwartz
Daniel Joseph "DJ" Rodriguez
Christopher Joseph Quaglin
Thomas Webster
Christopher J. Worrell
Thomas Harlen Smith
Albaquerque Cosper Head
Kyle J. Young
Patrick McCaughey III
Steven Cappuccio
Andrew Taake
Edward J. Kelley
who were all found guilty after trial for violently attacking police officers.
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