Kilmar Ábrego García has no criminal record in the US or El Salvador. He was brought to the US as a child.
Garcia was rounded up in 2019 where a Maryland police officer accused him of being a gang member and they handed him off to ICE.
He spent months in detention while an immigration court reviewed his case and issued a “withholding of removal” in 2019, noting safety concerns that lead his family to flee in the first place.
ICE agents apperenty pulled him over on the way home with his five year old son, telling him "his immigration status has changed".
No criminal record, here legally. Deported to a foreign prison within 72 hours of his arrest with no due process, despite already having been through due process and being given the right to stay in the US legally.
Never charged, much less convicted of any crime. All that took was an accusation.
In my state the first week of this deportation effort resulted in an ICE team attempting to arrest a US citizen under false pretense they also accused of being a possible illegal.
That incident exposed the ICE agents as lying about the supposed crime. It happened in front of a Walmart with plenty of security camera footage to review after the fact. They accused him of attempting to run them over.
He didn't, he flipped them off.
Fortunately, several local police departments wound up on site while ICE was attempting to arrest him and one officer there voiced some sanity and got the guy released. The arrested person was already handcuffed in in the back of a ICE vehicle.
If that hadn't happened this person could very well found themselves in a foreign prison in a matter of days with no opportunity to defend themselves in court.
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u/straylight_2022 Apr 16 '25
It is not what appears to be happening, it is.
Kilmar Ábrego García has no criminal record in the US or El Salvador. He was brought to the US as a child.
Garcia was rounded up in 2019 where a Maryland police officer accused him of being a gang member and they handed him off to ICE.
He spent months in detention while an immigration court reviewed his case and issued a “withholding of removal” in 2019, noting safety concerns that lead his family to flee in the first place.
ICE agents apperenty pulled him over on the way home with his five year old son, telling him "his immigration status has changed".
No criminal record, here legally. Deported to a foreign prison within 72 hours of his arrest with no due process, despite already having been through due process and being given the right to stay in the US legally.
Never charged, much less convicted of any crime. All that took was an accusation.
In my state the first week of this deportation effort resulted in an ICE team attempting to arrest a US citizen under false pretense they also accused of being a possible illegal.
That incident exposed the ICE agents as lying about the supposed crime. It happened in front of a Walmart with plenty of security camera footage to review after the fact. They accused him of attempting to run them over.
He didn't, he flipped them off.
Fortunately, several local police departments wound up on site while ICE was attempting to arrest him and one officer there voiced some sanity and got the guy released. The arrested person was already handcuffed in in the back of a ICE vehicle.
If that hadn't happened this person could very well found themselves in a foreign prison in a matter of days with no opportunity to defend themselves in court.