Kilmar Ábrego García Reunites with Family, But Trump Admin Threatens to Jail & Deport Him Again

We get an update on the extraordinary case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father who first made headlines in March when he was wrongfully deported to El Salvador and held in the notorious CECOT mega-prison. Abrego Garcia was returned to the United States after months of public outrage, but his ordeal continued as the Trump administration has threatened to deport him to Uganda, Eswatini and Liberia, despite having no ties to those African countries. Last week, a federal judge ordered him released from an ICE jail in Pennsylvania and blocked further arrests as a denial of due process.

Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of Abrego Garcia's attorneys, says the administration's actions are primarily meant to punish him" for standing up for his rights. It's also about the government using him, more or less at random, to stand for the principle that they get to do whatever they want, whenever they want, to whomever they want - and, specifically, courts can't stop them."