Deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia (to Uganda)

Today, Explained

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Politics, Daily News, News

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The US government is trying to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia again. It's part of a larger war on immigrants that could lead to a smaller, poorer America. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Rebeca Ibarra, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Matthew Billy, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura after a prayer vigil before entering an ICE field office. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Presidente Trump has said he wants to deport a million people out of the United States every year.
0:07.0	One million illegal aliens per year.
0:09.0	Thus far in 2025, he's falling well short of that goal. Estimates are in the neighborhood of 200,000 as of August.
0:17.0	But the one deportee most people can name remains Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
0:22.6	My name is Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
0:25.6	I'm free.
0:27.6	And I reunique with my family.
0:29.6	After months in a Salvadoran labor camp prison complex,
0:33.6	Abrago Garcia returned to the United States in June.
0:36.6	But the latest news is that the federal
0:38.8	government wants to deport him to Uganda.
0:42.0	He needs to never be in the United States of America, and our administration is making
0:46.0	sure we're doing all that we can to bring him to justice.
0:48.7	We're going to try and understand why and wrap our heads around what his story tells us
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