Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
2025 deportation of a Salvadoran national from the United States
Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man living in the United States, was illegally deported on March 15, 2025, by the U.S. government under the Trump administration, which called it "an administrative error". His case became the most prominent of the hundreds of migrants the U.S. sent to be jailed without trial at the Salvadoran Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) under the countries' agreement where the U.S. would pay the Salvadoran government to imprison U.S. deportees there. The administration defended the deportation and accused Abrego Garcia of being a member of MS-13—a US-designated terrorist organization—based on a county police report mentioned during a 2019 immigration court bail proceeding. Abrego Garcia has denied the allegation.
Abrego Garcia grew up in El Salvador, and around 2011, at age 16, he illegally immigrated to the United States to escape gang threats. In 2019, an immigration judge granted him withholding of removal status due to the danger he would face from gang violence if he returned to El Salvador. This status allowed him to live and work legally in the U.S. At the time of his deportation in 2025, he lived in Maryland with his wife and children, who are all American citizens; he was complying with annual US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) check-ins; and he had never been charged with or convicted of a crime in either country. Despite this, he was imprisoned without trial in CECOT.
After Abrego Garcia was deported, his wife filed suit in Maryland asking that the U.S. government return him to the U.S. The district court judge ordered the government to "facilitate and effectuate" his return. The government appealed, and on April 10, 2025, the Supreme Court stated unanimously that the government must "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return to the U.S. The administration interpreted "facilitate" to mean it was not obligated to seek his release, and it was up to El Salvador whether to release him.
On June 6, 2025, the federal government returned Abrego Garcia to the U.S., and the Department of Justice announced that he had been criminally indicted in Tennessee for "unlawful transportation of illegal aliens for financial gain" and conspiracy to do so.
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