Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran man 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, initially in the Salvadoran maximum security Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), despite never having been charged with nor convicted of a crime in either country at the time, under the countries' agreement to imprison US deportees there for payment. The administration defended the deportation, publicly accusing him of being a member of MS-13, an accusation based on a bail determination made during a 2019 immigration court proceeding and that Abrego Garcia denied.
A story that’s stirring outrage across the U.S. —
Senator Chris Van Hollen has met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran..
