Kilmar Abrego Garcia, erected as a symbol of the errors in the anti-migrant policy of the Trump administration, had emigrated to the United States at 16 to flee the gangs of Salvador. Married to an American, 29 -year -old father, he finds herself locked up with them in a high security prison today.
Arrested in front of his five-year-old son when he left a store in Maryland, in the northeast of the United States where he lives with his wife and two other children of her, he found himself sixty-two hours later, on March 16, in the High Security Prison of Cecot in San Salvador.
Like 238 Venezuelans and 22 other Salvadorians, he was expelled from the United States, all accused of being members of the Venezuelan criminal bands of the Tren of Aragua and the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), classified “terrorist organizations” by the new American administration.
No evidence is belonging to the MS-13.
The Trump administration then recognized in justice that its expulsion resulted from an “administrative error”, since an expulsion decree against it to Salvador had been definitively canceled by a federal court in 2019.
Mr. Abrego Garcia had just been arrested by the police, on the orders of a judge who collected the denunciation of an anonymous informant accusing him of belonging to the MS-13 in New York.
According to his lawyer, Me Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, Kilmar Abrego Garcia has never lived in NY and “has never been condemned for the slightest offense, in connection or not with gangs”.
If Mr. Abrego Garcia saw his request for asylum refused to him, a judge granted him legal protection so that he was not returned to Salvador where he is considered in danger, and a work permit was granted to him.
“When will you come back”?
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was born in San Salvador in 1995 in a father’s father and a mother who was food business, according to documents presented to the immigration judge in 2019. With a brother and two sisters, he helped maintain the family business.
The country was then totally under the thumb of the MS-13 and its rival Le Barrio 18, which made northern Central America (Honduras, Guatemala and Salvador) one of the most violent and dangerous regions in the world.
Barrio 18 began to extort the family trade, threatening the members with death if they did not run. Fearing that Kilmar and his brother be recruited by the gang, his parents sent them to the United States where, according to the Salvadoral media, today lives most of the family.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia arrived in 2011 in the state of Maryland, where he started working as a maneuver on construction sites.
Seven years later, he started a relationship with Jennifer Vasquez Sura, and this union was born a diagnosed son with autism syndrome.
The mother testified to Casa, an NGO from Maryland who takes care of migrants, that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an “excellent father”, “main support for our home and the love of my life for more than seven years”.
“Since our family was separated, I have been destroyed,” she said.
The Department of Internal Security has exhibited on X a copy of the civil protection order that Ms. Vasquez Sura had asked for her husband in 2021.
On CNN, she said she had the deposit after an argument with her husband because she came out of a relationship marked by domestic violence. “We have managed to overcome this situation in private as a family, especially by following therapy. Our marriage has only strengthened in the years that followed. No one is perfect, and no marriage is perfect, ”she said.
“I will keep fighting until I saw my living husband,” said Vasquez Sura during a demonstration in Maryland asking for her release and her return, imploring “to stop playing political games with Kilmar’s life”: “If you hear me, remains strong. God has not forgotten you. Our children keep asking when you come back home. ”
