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🗓️ 27 April 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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What began as an ordinary traffic stop for Kilmar Abrego Garcia escalated into a nightmare at the center of a Supreme Court decision. The immigrant Maryland father was deported to El Salvador’s mega prison because of an “administrative error.” But even at the Supreme Court’s direction, the Trump administration has still not brought Kilmar back.
This case has tipped the scales: “We are in a moment of constitutional crisis.”
We break down what this case means and also bring you exclusive reporting about a Venezuelan man with no criminal record who was taken simply because of his tattoos.
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0:51.8 | It's a Wednesday in mid-March and 29-year-old Kilmal Abrego-Garcia is driving home. |
0:58.2 | He just picked up his five-year-old son at Grandma's house. |
1:01.5 | Kilmar notices some sort of law enforcement vehicle trying to pull him over. |
1:09.9 | Kilmar is not far from home, so he pulls into an IKEA parking lot. |
1:14.6 | He rolls down the window of his car and thinks that this is just going to be a regular traffic |
1:19.7 | stop. He calls his wife, Jennifer Vasquez-Sura, and she tells him to put her on speaker. |
1:27.1 | Jennifer can now hear the officer tell Kilmar to turn off the car and step outside of his vehicle. |
1:35.3 | Gilmar says his son is in the backseat and that he has special needs. |
1:39.9 | Then Kilmar's phone goes silent. |
1:44.9 | A few minutes later, Jennifer gets a phone call from someone who says they're with the Department |
1:50.2 | of Homeland Security. |
1:51.7 | You need to come get your son. |
1:53.9 | When she arrives, she sees her husband sitting on the curb in handcuffs. |
1:58.9 | Their son is crying hysterically, |
2:01.4 | and the officials on the scene |
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