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Bulwark Takes

Kids Watched Their Mom Taken Away at the Airport

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Andrew Egger take on new developments in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case and the heartbreaking story of a Massachusetts mom with four kids both devastating cases that left families broken and afraid.

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0:00.0

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0:38.9

So as we're speaking, which is like 10, 15 this morning, tell us the latest.

0:43.2

For the last while, basically since he came back to the U.S., Kilmer Barrio Garcia has been in custody, not of immigration officials, but he's been under custody for the criminal charges that the White House

0:54.9

has brought, the Justice Department has brought against him supposedly for smuggling people,

0:59.5

other undocumented immigrants from one point of the country to the other in 2022. That's why he's

1:05.4

been in custody. Over the weekend, he was released for the first time since he became sort of a

1:10.6

household name, he was allowed to walk free for the duration of this weekend, released from a federal prison in Tennessee and was at home over the weekend.

1:19.5

But this morning in Baltimore, he was required to report back into ICE custody in Baltimore.

1:31.4

And he was widely expected to be re-detained. And that's what happened. He showed up at an ice facility in Maryland and was taken back into custody. He and his

1:37.2

wife walked in, only his wife walked out. And the Department of Homeland Security has immediately

1:41.6

announced its plans to move forward with deporting him,

1:45.7

uh, not, uh, not to El Salvador, where he can't be deported according to a, a former, uh,

1:51.0

stay from a judge and also not to anywhere nearby, but over to Uganda is what they have,

1:55.9

have recently announced. Presumably has tons of family members there and, and, and ties and

2:00.4

and all that. Yeah, yeah,

2:02.5

obviously not. And this is a thing that his lawyers have characterized, and I think with obviously

2:08.9

accurately as just completely punitive, the Justice Department and DHS were putting forward a plea

2:17.0

deal for Kilmer-Abrigo Garcia over the weekend,

2:19.9

where if he would agree to plead guilty to these federal charges that they have slapped on him in a sort of a face-saving measure to try to make him look bad and make them look better for deporting him to El Salvador in the first place,

2:32.3

if he would agree to plead guilty to that, he would serve some time in prison here,

2:36.7

and then he would have been deported to Costa Rica, is what the deal on the table was.

2:42.9

And instead, what appears to be the case is that he did not agree to take that plea.

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