President Trump has said he wants to deport a million people out of the United States every year.
One million illegal aliens per year.
Thus far in 2025, he's falling well short of that goal.
Estimates are in the neighborhood of 200,000 as of August.
But the one deportee most people can name remains Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
My name is Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I'm free.
And I got together with my family.
After months in a Salvadoran labor camp prison complex,
Abrego Garcia returned to the United States in June,
but the latest news is that the federal government wants to deport him to Uganda.
He needs to never be in the United States of America and our administration is making sure we're doing all that we can to bring him to justice.
We're going to try and understand why and wrap our heads around what his story tells us about our country on Today Explained.
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