Episode 2905
Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Wed, 2025-Apr-16 02:16 UTC
Length - 3:13
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With 228,727 views on Tuesday, 15 April 2025 our article of the day is Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador who was illegally deported from the United States on March 15, 2025, in what the Trump administration called "an administrative error." He was then imprisoned without trial in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a maximum security prison in El Salvador, despite never having been charged with or convicted of a crime in either country. His lawyers argue that his imprisonment is part of the agreement to jail U. S. deportees there in exchange for payment. The administration has defended the deportation in the press by accusing Abrego Garcia of membership in the MS-13 gang, a U. S.-designated terrorist organization, based on a not-fully adjudicated claim related to immigration court proceedings in 2019, which Garcia had denied.
Abrego Garcia illegally immigrated to the U. S. in 2011 at the age of 16. He had lived and worked in the country legally since 2019, when an immigration judge granted him "withholding of removal" status, a rare alternative to asylum, over the threat to his life from gang violence in El Salvador if deported. At the time of his deportation in 2025, he was living in Maryland with his wife and children, all American citizens, and reporting to U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) annually.
On April 10, 2025, the U. S. Supreme Court found Abrego Garcia's removal to El Salvador to be illegal. The court rejected the administration's defense that they had no jurisdiction over El Salvador to bring him back, with Justice Sotomayor noting that the argument implied the government "could deport and incarcerate any person, including U. S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene."
The Supreme Court required the U. S. to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's release, but stopped short of a lower court's order to both "facilitate and effectuate" his return. The administration took this to mean that it has no obligation to arrange for Abrego Garcia's return and can fulfill its obligation to "facilitate" his release by admitting him into the U. S. and providing a plane if El Salvador chooses to release him, which President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele refuses to do saying he would not "smuggle a terrorist into the United States".
Abrego Garcia's deportation has garnered significant attention, highlighting issues within the U. S. immigration system and the immigration policy of Trump's second administration.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:16 UTC on Wednesday, 16 April 2025.
For the full current version of the article, see Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Wikipedia.
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