By Ben Finley
During the 22 days following the Maryland resident, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was wrongly expelled to a notoriously violent prison in Salvador, his young autistic son sought to comfort in the smell of his disappeared father’s clothes.
“Although he cannot speak, he shows me how much he missed Kilmar,” said Abrego Garcia’s Surah, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, in court documents. “He found Kingmar’s worktops and felt them, to feel the familiar scent of Kilmar. He cries and acts more than usual.”
Abrego Garcia, 29, who worked as an apprentice in sheet metal and continued his license to become a companion, was arrested in an Ikea parking lot and arrested on March 12, with his 5 -year -old son in the car.
The administration of President Donald Trump acknowledged on Monday that the sending of Abrego Garcia to his native Salvador was an “administrative error”. An immigration judge in 2019 had granted him protection against being expelled in El Salvador, where Abrego Garcia was likely to face the persecution by local gangs.
Despite this, the managers of the White House pleaded against bringing him back, alleging without showing the proof that Garcia Garcia has links with the Gang MS-13. The administration also says that it does not have the power to request its return to the government of El Salvador.
Abrego Garcia’s family and lawyers have denied gang ties and maintain that the United States has little evidence to support its complaint.
His expulsion and the admission by the government of his error sparked an immediate outcry.
“No one should be expelled to the country itself when a judge determined that he would face persecution,” Maryland Wes Moore, Democrat, on Tuesday, on the social platform X. “It is scandalous that the regular procedure means nothing for the federal administration. They admitted having made an error and I urge them to correct it. ”
Moore added that “we can be in pro-public security and pro-constitution at the same time”.
Abrego Garcia came to the United States illegally from Salvador around 2011, “fleeing the violence of the gangs”, according to his lawyers, and went to Maryland to join his older brother, an American citizen.
The emigration of Abrego Garcia of Salvador was the subject of an immigration hearing in October 2019 after his arrest while he was looking for work and went to American immigration and the application of customs following allegations concerning his membership in the gang.
Ice had pleaded against his release during a court hearing following the arrest because the local police in Maryland had “checked” his membership in the gang, said the complaint of his lawyers. Abrego Garcia subsequently asked for asylum, while his lawyer submitted a “voluminous evidence establishing his eligibility for protection and the disputed of the unfounded allegation of gang membership,” said the complaint.
An immigration judge rejected Abrego Garcia’s asylum application in October 2019, but granted him protection against being expelled in Salvador. He was released after Ice did not appeal.
Abrego Garcia later married Vasquez Sura, who is an American citizen, and the couple is the parents of their son and his two children with a previous relationship.
Originally published:
California Daily Newspapers
