35 h. ago 14 news outlets ask judge to unseal filings in Abrego García case

A coalition of 14 news organizations on Tuesday asked the federal judge overseeing the lawsuit of the Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador to unseal records of the proceedings surrounding efforts to return him to the United States. The request from the media outlets, including The Washington Post, comes as filings in […]

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60 h. ago What is Alcatraz? How the island fortress became America’s most notorious prison

The prison off the coast of San Francisco is where the government sent notorious gangsters, such as Al Capone, as well as others who were considered too dangerous to lock up elsewhere

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3 d. ago Trump says he will reopen ‘substantially enlarged’ Alcatraz prison

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island. In a message on his Truth Social site Sunday evening, Trump wrote that, “For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of […]

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7 d. ago Trump says he ‘could’ bring wrongly deported man back to U.S. — but won’t

The Trump administration says Kilmar Abrego Garcia has ties to the MS-13 gang, a claim Abrego Garcia's lawyers vehemently deny, noting he has never been charged with a crime.

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1 week ago GOLDBERG: Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation raising authority concerns

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia a good person? I don’t know. In 2021, his wife petitioned for, and received, an order of protection against him after she alleged domestic violence. She said last week that their marriage grew stronger after they worked through that low point and that Abrego Garcia “has always been a loving partner and […]

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2 w. ago 4 Democrats blocked from visiting Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

U.S. House Democrats Yassamin Ansari, Maxine Dexter, Maxwell Frost and Robert Garcia made their way to El Salvador to visit Garcia and help negotiate his release.

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2 w. ago Man deported to El Salvador moved to a prison with bed, furniture

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is out of the controversial CECOT mega prison where he’d been held with other accused gang members

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2 w. ago Un sénateur américain dénonce la mise en scène de sa rencontre avec le Salvadorien expulsé à tort

Selon lui, les autorités salvadoriennes ont délibérément mis en scène son échange avec Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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2 w. ago Tropical drinks by pool? Not so fast, says senator who visited Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

There was the pool furniture in the background. There were the tropical drinks, which looked to be margaritas garnished with cherries. And then there were the deported prisoner and the American senator, sitting and chatting. That senator, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, accused El Salvador’s government on Friday of aiming to paint the picture of […]

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2 w. ago Abrego Garcia told visiting senator he’s no longer being held at notorious prison

WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is recounting the chronology of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s travel to El Salvador, saying he told him he was initially taken to Baltimore, then Texas, then put on a plane with “no idea where he was going.” Upon arriving, Abrego Garcia said he was “traumatized” by being at […]

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3 w. ago U.S. senator keeps word, goes to El Salvador to check on wrongly deported man

Sen. Chris Van Hollen told reporters he intends to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's well-being, report on his condition and speak with El Salvador government officials.

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3 w. ago U.S. judge to question Trump officials’ refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia

A federal judge in Maryland is expected to question the Trump administration Tuesday about its continued refusal to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison, even after the Supreme Court ordered his return to the U.S. The 4 p.m. hearing in a U.S. District Court comes a day after White House advisers repeated […]

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3 w. ago U.S. senator to travel to El Salvador if Trump won’t return wrongfully deported man

In 2019, a U.S. immigration judge shielded Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from deportation to El Salvador as he would likely have faced persecution by local gangs.

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3 w. ago El Salvador president says he won’t be releasing man wrongly deported by US

The meeting came as El Salvador has been a critical linchpin of the Trump administration’s mass deportation operation sweeping the country.

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3 w. ago El Salvador President Bukele says he won’t be releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ‘s top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they had no basis for the small Central American nation to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month. Trump administration officials emphasized that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to a notorious […]

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3 w. ago ’Extremely troubling’ that U.S. can’t provide details on mistakenly deported man, judge says

GREENBELT, Md. — A federal judge on Friday lambasted a government lawyer who couldn’t explain what, if anything, the Trump administration has done to arrange for the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The U.S. government attorney also struggled to provide any information […]

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