Jun 25 Kilmar Abrego Garcia is expected to be released from jail only to be taken into immigration custody By Travis Loller, Associated Press The Salvadoran national whose mistaken deportation became a flashpoint in the fight over President Donald Trump's immigration policies has been in jail since he was returned to the U.S. on June 7. He faces two counts of human smuggling in… Continue reading
Jun 22 Judge orders Abrego Garcia’s release from jail to await trial, but ICE plans to detain him By Travis Loller, Ben Finley, Associated Press A Tennessee judge on Sunday ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, while he awaits a federal trial on human smuggling charges. But he is not expected to be allowed to go… Continue reading
Jun 13 Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleads not guilty to human smuggling charges By Travis Loller, Jonathan Mattise, Ben Finley, Associated Press Facing mounting pressure to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S., the Trump administration brought him back last week. However, he was immediately taken into custody on new criminal charges filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of… Continue reading
Jun 06 Watch 4:10 Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to U.S. to face charges from Tennessee traffic stop By Laura Barrón-López, Matt Loffman Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in the United States. He was wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador in March when the president invoked the wartime Alien Enemies Act. A grand jury in Tennessee indicted him on charges related… Continue watching
Jun 06 WATCH: DOJ brings Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to U.S. to face charges of transporting undocumented immigrants By Associated Press Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation to El Salvador became a political flashpoint in the Trump administration's stepped-up immigration enforcement, was being returned to the United States to face criminal charges related to what the Trump administration said was a massive… Continue reading
May 16 Senate Republicans block Democratic push for transparency over Trump’s deportations to El Salvador By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press The resolution blocked by Republicans would force administration officials to report to Congress about what steps it is taking to comply with courts that have ruled on the deportations. Democrats have highlighted the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was… Continue reading
May 16 WATCH: Attorneys react to latest Kilmar Abrego Garcia hearing where judge called Trump administration’s explanation ‘inadequate’ By Ben Finley, Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press A federal judge told the Trump administration Friday that its explanation for invoking the state secrets privilege in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case is inadequate, describing the government’s reasoning for withholding information as “take my word for it.”… Continue reading
Apr 30 Judge orders Trump officials to report efforts, if any, to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to U.S. By Ben Finley, Associated Press A federal judge on Wednesday again directed the Trump administration to provide information about its efforts so far, if any, to comply with her order to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison. Continue reading
Apr 22 More Democratic lawmakers visit El Salvador to see Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported by Trump administration By Marcos Aleman, Matt Brown, Associated Press While administration officials have acknowledged that the decision to deport Abrego Garcia was done in error, they have said they have no power to return him to the country despite a Supreme Court ruling calling on the government to do… Continue reading
Apr 18 Watch 7:24 ‘Let’s have a real court case’: Attorney for deported man on the refusals to return him By William Brangham, Doug Adams For more than a month, Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been in prison in El Salvador after the Trump administration deported the Maryland resident along with hundreds of others. Thursday, his family and the world saw photos of Abrego Garcia and… Continue watching