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🗓️ 18 April 2025
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0:00.0 | Kilmar Abrago-Garcia, the Maryland resident deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration |
0:05.6 | last month, is no longer being housed at the mega prison known as Seacott. |
0:10.0 | He was moved last week to another detention center in El Salvador. |
0:15.0 | For the first time since his deportation, his family and the world also saw photos of Mr. |
0:20.0 | Abrago Garcia |
0:21.3 | and heard a firsthand report of his condition |
0:24.0 | after Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen |
0:27.0 | met with him yesterday in El Salvador. |
0:29.6 | He was moved to another detention center |
0:31.8 | in Santa Ana, |
0:35.1 | where the conditions are better, |
0:38.3 | but he said despite the better conditions, |
0:42.3 | he still has no access to any news from the outside world |
0:47.3 | and no ability to communicate with anybody in the outside world. |
0:55.6 | Meanwhile, the fierce legal battle over his status continues. |
0:59.6 | The Trump administration alleges, despite wrongfully deporting him, that he's affiliated with |
1:04.7 | the MS-13 gang, and there's nothing they can do to bring him back. |
1:09.2 | An appeals court yesterday called that shocking and |
1:12.2 | wrote, quote, the government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign |
1:17.7 | prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. |
1:24.7 | So for the latest on this case, we turn to one of Abrago-Garcia's lawyers. |
1:29.3 | Rina Gandhi is an attorney with the immigration law firm Murray Osorio. Rina, thank you very much for |
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