Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran who arrived in the United States at 16 and is married to a US citizen, faces deportation to Uganda after prior efforts to remove him to El Salvador. He was wrongly deported to El Salvador in March despite a 2019 court order protecting him, and his lawyers report that he suffered torture at CECOT including severe beatings and sleep deprivation. The Trump administration initially called the deportation an administrative error and resisted returning him, then brought him back amid criminal charges alleging human smuggling and alleged gang involvement based on a 2022 traffic stop.
Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man who arrived in the US at the age of 16, was once again taken into the custody of immigration authorities on Monday, as part of a high-stakes back-and-forth over his ability to stay in the country. In March, Abrego Garcia first made headlines when he was sent back to his native El Salvador, despite a 2019 court order protecting him from deportation. The Trump administration initially admitted that the deportation was an administrative error.
Abrego Garcia had expressed fears to the court that returning to El Salvador would subject him to gang violence. The Maryland father, who is married to a US citizen, was among the deportees from the US sent to El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT), a maximum-security prison with a record of human rights abuses. While in the facility, his lawyers say he experienced torture, including severe beatings and sleep deprivation.
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