Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran who was illegally deported from the United States on March 15, 2025, in what the Trump administration called "an administrative error". He was imprisoned without trial in the Salvadoran maximum security Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), despite never having been charged with nor convicted of a crime in either country, under the countries' agreement to imprison U.S. deportees there for payment. The administration has defended the deportation by accusing him of being a member of MS-13, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, an accusation based on a bail determination made during a 2019 immigration court proceeding, which Abrego Garcia contested.
A story that’s stirring outrage across the U.S. —
Senator Chris Van Hollen has met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran..
