The story of Kilmar Abrego Garcia appeared as if it started and ended in his hometown of El Salvador.
But on Thursday, the US Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to facilitate its return to the United States from a notorious prison, and the White House claim that the Al -Salvaduri citizen could not retrieve him after he was wrongly deported.
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Abu Garcia, 29, will return to the country where he lived for approximately 14 years, where he was working during construction, and he was raising three children with disabilities, according to court records.
He will also face allegations that prompted his expulsion: accusing 2019 of the local police in Maryland’s state of being a member of the MS-13 gang.
His lawyers said that Abro Garcia denied this claim and was not charged with a crime high. After that, the United States immigration judge protected him from deportation to El Salvador because he is likely to face persecution there by the local gangs that wanted his family.
The Trump administration deported him there last month anyway, describing the error later as an “administrative error” but he insists that he was in MS-13.
This unknown image presented by CASA, an organization to defend immigrants, appears in April 2025, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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With ABREGO Garcia returning to the United States and his case continues, here is his story so far:
Gang threats in El Salvador
Abro Garcia grew up in the capital of El Salvador, San Salvador, according to the documents of the court submitted in the US Migration Court in 2019. His father was a former police officer. His mother, Cecilia, PuPusas, sold the nation’s signature of flat tortilla bags that carry steam mixtures of cheese, beans, or delicious pork.
The entire family, including his parents, two sisters and two older brothers, has managed the business from the home, in the state of court records. Abrego Garcia function was to buy components from the grocery store and create delivery with his brother.
“Everyone in the city knew obtaining Poposas from” Poposiria Cecilia “,” his lawyers wrote.
A local gang, Barrio 18, began blackmailing the family for “renting money” and threatened to kill his older brother Cesar – or force him to enter their gangs – if they are not paid, in the state of the court. She complied with the family, but she finally sent Cesar to the United States
Barrio 18 likened Apierigo Garcia, according to the migration case. When he was 12 years old, the gang threatened to take him until his father paid them “all the money they wanted.” They still watch him walking to and from school.
The family moved 10 minutes, but the gang threatened to rape and sisters of the sisters of Abu Garcia, the court records said. The family closed the work, moved again and finally sent Abrego Garcia to the United States
The family never went to the authorities because of the outbreak of the police, according to the court’s files. The gang continued to harass the family after they moved to Guatemala, which challenged Salvador.
In this unknown image, a man known to Jennifer Vasquiz Surah as her husband, Kilmar Abrago Garcia, is forced to sit with other prisoners in the center of imprisonment of terrorism.
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Life in the United States
Abro Garcia illegally fled to the United States in 2011, the year that reached the age of 16, according to the documents submitted in the immigration case. He joined Cesar, who is now an American citizen, in Maryland and found construction work.
After about five years, I met the Apiru Garcia Jennifer Vasquiz, a surah, an American citizen, says the records. In 2018, after she learned that she was pregnant, she moved with her and her two children. They lived in Prince George County, outside Washington.
In 2019, Abrego Garcia went to a home warehouse looking for work when he was arrested by the District Police, according to the court files. The investigators asked if he was a member of the gang. After explaining that he was not, he was detained before the enforcement of immigration and customs.
Abrojo Garcia later told the immigration judge that he would seek asylum and asked to release him. Vasquez Sura was five months in the risk of pregnancy.
However, the enforcement of American migration and customs claimed that he was a reliable member of the gang based on the information that came from a secret laboratory used by the boycott police.
According to the Abero Garcia lawyers in his current case, the criminal laboratory claimed that Abro Garcia belongs to the MS-13 chapter in New York, where he never lived.
The information was sufficient for the immigration judge in 2019 to preserve the Abugo Garcia in prison, as the immigration case continued, the state in court records. The judge said that the informant had proven reliable and verified his membership in the gangs.
Abro Garcia later married Vasquez a surah at the Mariland detention center, according to court files. She gave birth while he was still in prison.
In October 2019, the immigration judge deprived Aberigo Gargo, but he gave him the protection of deportation to El Salvador because of the “established fear” from the persecution of gangs, according to his case. He was released, and the ice was not resumed.
His lawyers in the court files said that Abo Garcia has registered arrival with ICE annually, while the Ministry of Internal Security issued a work permit. Join a union and was working full time as a metal leaf.
He and Zacwalez were a three -year -old surah, including their 5 -year -old son, who suffers from autism, deaf in one ear and is unable to communicate verbally, according to the complaint filed against the Trump administration. They also raise a 9 -year -old child with autism and a 10 -year -old child with epilepsy.
Jennifer Vasquiz Surra, the wife of Kilmar Abrago Garcia, who was accidentally deported to El Salvador, is talking at a press conference at the Casa Multi -Cultural Center in Heitville, Maryland.
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The wrong deportation
In February, the Trump administration identified MS-13 as a foreign terrorist organization and sought to remove the specific members “as quickly as possible”, the American lawyer, Dr. John Sawir is on Monday to the Supreme Court.
Abrego Garcia was withdrawn during March 12 outside IKEA in Baltimore with his son, according to court records. An agent named Vasquez Surat and said that she is in front of 10 minutes to restore their son or ice will request child protection services.
Abjjo Garcia called his wife from prison and said that the authorities had pressed him about MS-13, according to court documents. They asked about a photo of them from playing basketball in a public stadium, and his family’s visits to a restaurant that serves Mexican food and spadori.
“He would have repeated the truth over and over again – that he was not in a gang,” Vasquez said a surah in the court documents.
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