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Fri Apr 18, 2025, 07:44 PM Apr 2025

What we know about Abrego Garcia

April 18, 2025, 5:32 PM EDT
By Daniella Silva, Laura Strickler and Gary Grumbach

... In 2016, he met his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, who is a U.S. citizen. They had a young son together ...

Abrego Garcia was arrested in March 2019 in a Home Depot parking lot in Hyattsville with three other men for “loitering” ...

... Abrego Garcia’s wife had received a temporary protective order against him in 2021. Vasquez Sura did not appear for the hearing and the case was ultimately dismissed. She released a statement explaining what happened ...

The Tennessee Highway Patrol said in a statement that in 2022 Abrego Garcia was stopped for speeding on I-40. The agency contacted federal law enforcement, which decided not to detain him ...

... Immigration Judge Elizabeth Kessler ... in 2019 ... noted ... a seeming discrepancy ... One form stated it was in relation to a murder investigation, she wrote, while another states police approached him “because he and others were loitering outside of Home Depot” ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-deported-el-salvador-trump-immigration-what-know-rcna201708


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What we know about Abrego Garcia (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2025 OP
he's come to exemplify that naked lawlessness of the Trump admin Demovictory9 Apr 2025 #1

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