What's next in the case that symbolizes Trump's immigration crackdown?
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🗓️ 12 June 2025
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Summary
Abrego Garcia was arrested by ICE agents on March 12th, as he was leaving his job in Baltimore. In the days and months that followed, the fate of the 29-year-old father of three was in the hands of the Trump administration and El Salvador's President.
At the time of his arrest the administration alleged he was an active member of the Salvadoran gang MS-13.
His family and his legal team deny this. He was deported to a supermax prison in El Salvador despite a protective order that he should remain in the U.S.
But then – less than a month after his arrest, a federal judge and then the Supreme Court ruled the government should facilitate Abrego Garcia's return to the U.S.
Now nearly three months after Abrego Garcia was sent to a prison in another country... he's back on US soil.
What happens now?
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| 0:00.0 | Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a name that has become near synonymous with the Trump administration's |
| 0:06.6 | immigration crackdown. |
| 0:08.0 | Kilmar Abrego Garcia. |
| 0:09.6 | Kilmar Abregal Garcia. |
| 0:11.3 | Abregal Garcia, that is the Maryland father. |
| 0:13.5 | The man who became a flashpoint in the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. |
| 0:17.9 | He was mistakenly deported. |
| 0:19.5 | Erroneously deported to a notorious |
| 0:21.5 | prison in El Salvador. Abrigo Garcia was arrested by ICE agents on March 12, as he was leaving |
| 0:28.1 | his job in Baltimore. And in the days and months that followed, the fate of the 29-year-old |
| 0:33.8 | father of three was in the hands of the Trump administration and the president of |
| 0:38.6 | El Salvador. At the time of his arrest, the Trump administration alleged he was an active member |
| 0:44.2 | of the Salvadoran gang MS-13. He was a member of MS-13 and he was illegally in our country. |
| 0:52.1 | His family and his legal team deny this. He was deported to a |
| 0:57.0 | supermax prison in El Salvador, this despite a protective order that he should remain in the U.S. |
| 1:02.9 | And then less than a month after his arrest, a federal judge, and then the Supreme Court ruled |
| 1:08.9 | the government should facilitate Abrago Garcia's return |
| 1:12.4 | to the U.S. Justice Sotomayor wrote, quote, to this day, the government has cited no basis in |
| 1:18.8 | law of Abrago Garcia's warrantless arrest, his removal to El Salvador, or his confinement in a |
| 1:24.7 | Salvadorian prison, nor could it. This case is not about this particular individual, Abrago Garcia. |
| 1:31.7 | It's about his constitutional rights. |
| 1:34.0 | That's Maryland Democrat Chris Van Hollen, |
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