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"He's never been convicted for anything," Jennifer Vasquez told ABC News Live Prime on Wednesday.
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According to a federal judge, after three days, "without any notice, legal process, or hearing", Mr Garcia found himself back in his native El Salvador at an infamous prison known for housing gang me...
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President Donald Trump is openly flirting with the prospect of deporting American citizens to the same explicitly cruel and dehumanizing mega-prison, too.

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Who is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man ICE mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison?
President Donald Trump's administration claims Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 gang member who should stay in an El Salvador prison.
Wife of Maryland man deported in error to El Salvador denies he's MS-13 member
The wife of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was deported to El Salvador in error, denies the government's claim that her husband is a member of MS-13.
Family, lawmakers call for the return of deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia
"History will always remember you." Family and lawmakers called for the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
Can the US return man deported to El Salvador? Immigration lawyers think so
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driving home with his young son in Maryland when he was stopped by agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Agents took Mr Garcia into custody, then shuttled him to detention facilities in Louisiana and Texas.
How a Chicago Bulls hat led to a Maryland dad being mistakenly shipped to an El Salvador prison
Police believed Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a member of the MS-13 gang for two reasons: He was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie, and an unnamed informant had told them so. The two pieces of evidence were not enough to keep Abrego Garcia in federal immigration custody in 2019,
‘Still fighting for you': Wrongfully deported man's wife, leaders rally on Capitol Hill
Four weeks after a Maryland father was detained by ICE and wrongfully deported to El Salvador, his wife and lawmakers spoke on Capitol Hill about the urgent need to bring him home. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained on March 12 and flown on a Justice Department flight to a notorious prison – though he had legal status to live
Trump Says He'd "Love" to Deport US Citizens to El Salvador Gulags if It's Legal
The Trump administration has already admitted in court that it deported a Maryland father to El Salvador in “error” and is currently fighting a court order to bring him back. Now, President Donald Trump is openly flirting with the prospect of deporting American citizens to the same explicitly cruel and dehumanizing mega-prison,
U.S. senators ‘demand’ immediate return of Marylander wrongly deported to El Salvador
Maryland’s U.S. senators issued a demand to the Trump administration on Tuesday to immediately return a Maryland man erroneously deported to a notorious El Salvador prison.
Inside El Salvador mega-prison where the U.S. sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants
ABC News given extraordinary access to the mega-prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has deported hundreds of Venezuelan migrants it claims are hardened gang members.
What's at stake in Kilmar Ábrego García's Supreme Court case?
Kilmar Ábrego García was seemingly safe in America. A 2019 court order blocked the 29-year-old migrant's deportation to his native El Salvador, where he feared gang violence. The Trump administration deported him anyway. Now the Supreme Court is taking on the case, a major test of the president's anti-immigration agenda.
Judge orders US to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador prison
A federal judge said the Trump administration acted illegally when it deported a Maryland man in error to El Salvador, and ordered he be returned.
El Salvador says it shares gang intel with the US — and requests specific deportees
El Salvador says it shares intelligence with the United States about gang members wanted by the Central American nation and provides “complete records” on them before formally requesting their deportation.
Federal judge orders return of man Trump administration accidentally sent to notorious El Salvador jail
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was taken to El Salvador on March 15 because of what the Trump administration has called an "administrative error."
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Kilmar Abrego García, the worker caught in a legal limbo between Trump, Bukele and the gangs
The 29-year-old Salvadoran, whose deportation the government concedes was an ‘administrative error,’ awaits his fate in El Salvador’s mega-prison after the US Supreme Court stayed a district judge’s o
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