2025-04-16
25 分钟This is The Guardian.
Today, he was deported to a mega-jail in El Salvador on what Trump's government is calling an administrative error.
So why hasn't Kilmara Brego Garcia been brought back to the US?
On March 12th of this year, after completing his shift at work in Baltimore,
Abrago Garcia picked up his five-year-old son from his grandma's home.
He had his son in the back seat when he was pulled over by ICE and an ICE officer told him that his status had changed,
meaning his immigration status had changed.
And so within minutes, Garcia was handcuffed, detained,
his wife was called and instructed to appear within 10 minutes to get their son,
and she was told that his son would be handed over to Child Protective Services if she didn't appear.
And then Abrago Garcia was whisked away.
No explanation was provided.
As to why he was being detained exactly or what was happening,
within three days he was on a plane being deported to El Salvador.
It's been a month
since Kilmara Brego Garcia was deported from the US and flown straight to an infamous prison in his home country.
He was one of hundreds of men flown out of the US that day under Donald Trump's mass deportation plan.
But he has no criminal convictions, and it's still not clear why he was arrested.
Abrago Garcia was whisked away because he was supposedly part of MS-13, this dangerous gang,
and later on the Trump administration admitted that actually he was deported due to an administrative error.