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From El Salvador to Uganda: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s fight takes new turn, Trump admin pushes deportation; Kristi Noem brands him MS-13 ‘child predator’

Kilmar Abrego Garcia , second right, leaves the Putnam County Jail. (AP Photo) Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland construction worker at the center of President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown, surrendered to US authorities in Baltimore on Monday. His case, already marked by a wrongful deportation to El Salvador earlier this year, has taken a […]

Undocumented El Salvador migrants arrested in sting: Police posed as teen girls online; flagged for deportation

Three men from El Salvador, currently in the US without legal status, were arrested in Houston, Texas, after being caught in a police sting targeting online predators. Officers from the Houston police department posed as teenage girls on the dating app Jaumo. Over the last ten days, they arrested Abner Ruiz, 37, Erick Menjivar, 30, […]

Beaten, kicked, humiliated: Deported Venezuelans allege abuse in El Salvador prison; return home after US swap

Migrants deported by US arrive in Venezuela (AP photo) Venezuelan migrants who had been detained for months in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison returned to their homes this week, describing their time behind bars as abusive. Several men and their family members reported the stories of being beaten, kicked, and humiliated while locked up. Some […]

‘Prayed for this day’: 10 Americans freed from Venezuelan prison in prisoner exchange programme; El Salvador releases over 200 Venezuelans

Ten Americans are on their way back to the US following a prisoner exchange involving the United States, El Salvador, and Venezuela, US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced Friday.As part of the prisoner exchange, more than 200 Venezuelan migrants, who were deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration have left […]

Court to rule on release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, man mistakenly deported to El Salvador; may face possible ICE custody | World News

A federal judge in Tennessee is set to order the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year and is now facing human smuggling charges in the United States. The decision came on Sunday, when US mmagistrate Judge Barbara Holmes denied the government’s motion to […]

‘What American justice looks like’: Man mistakenly deported to El Salvador back to US; faces federal charges, says attorney general

Kilmar Abrego Garcia (Photo: AP) Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, has returned to the United States to face federal criminal charges, attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday.Following extensive diplomatic negotiations between El Salvador’s government and the Trump administration, Bondi, in apress briefing said, “Abrego Garcia has landed in […]

Why El Salvador President Bukele’s foreign agents law fuelling democratic concerns | World News

Nayib Bukele (Photo: Getty images) SAN SALVADOR: Human rights organisations, politicians and experts have sharply criticised a law approved by El Salvador’s Congress as a censorship tool designed to silence and criminalise dissent in the Central American nation by targeting nongovernmental organisations that have long been critical of President Nayib Bukele.The law proposed by Bukele […]

Trump On Maryland Man: Trump’s 4-word brutal takedown of Chris Van Hollen after he meets Kilmar Abergo Garcia in El Salvador

Trump said Chris Van Hollen was begging for attention from ‘fake news media’ in El Salvador. President Donald Trump reacted to the controversial photo of Democratic Sen Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whom the Trump administration calls a gang leader and refuses to bring back ‘home’. the photo sparked off […]

Why was US senator Chris Van Hollen allowed to meet deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador hours after being denied?

Picture credit: X/Chris Van Hollen Democrat US senator Chris Van Hollen met Kilmar Abrego Garcia, mistakenly deported under the Trump administration, at a hotel in El Salvador on Thursday, hours after being denied entry to the prison where Garcia is held. A photo posted by Hollen shows the two sitting across from each other in […]

Trump: Would love to send US citizens to El Salvador jails

Trump has turned to El Salvador to imprison alleged criminals non-U.S. citizens deported from the US” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”/> Trump has turned to El Salvador to imprison alleged criminals non-U.S. citizens deported from the US WASHINGTON: President Trump stepped up his extraordinary threats to send Americans to foreign jails, saying he would love to deport “homegrown” […]