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03-07-2025
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Deportation, Torture, And Defiance Of Court Orders

Date: 03-07-2025
Sources: nytimes.com: 2 | theguardian.com: 1
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A tense, documentary-style scene showing a weary Latino man in handcuffs being transferred between two sets of uniformed officers in a dim, institutional hallway—one side with U.S. detention uniforms, the other with Salvadoran prison guards. The man is visibly gaunt with dramatic weight loss, hollow eyes, and bruises, under harsh fluorescent lights that never turn off. Subtle visual cues: a legal document stamped “Court Order” clutched by a lawyer in the background, a sign hinting at “Nashville Federal Detention,” and a distant glimpse of a stark megaprison silhouette. Emphasize the contrast between legal authority and grim

Summary

Across multiple reports and court filings, lawyers for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia—a Maryland resident with prior protection against removal—allege he was unlawfully seized by ICE, secretly deported to El Salvador, and tortured for nearly three months in the CECOT megaprison despite officials acknowledging he was not a gang member. The filings depict coordinated U.S.-Salvadoran actions, including threats and staged photos, and describe severe abuses such as beatings, sleep deprivation, denial of bathroom access, and constant illumination, leading to dramatic weight loss. After unanimous judicial orders up to the U.S. Supreme Court to restore the status quo and treat him as never removed, he was returned to the United States not to freedom but to federal custody in Nashville on a smuggling charge he denies, while the government sends conflicting signals about deporting him again to El Salvador or a third country. His attorneys seek injunctions to prevent further removal, enforce compliance with court rulings, and secure his release as proceedings in Maryland and Tennessee determine his custody and immigration status.

Key Points

  • Court filings allege ICE unlawfully deported Abrego Garcia despite a withholding-of-removal order.
  • He reports torture at El Salvador’s CECOT prison: beatings, sleep deprivation, bathroom denial, and constant light, with major weight loss.
  • Salvadoran officials acknowledged he was not a gang member, contradicting MS-13 claims cited by U.S. officials.
  • Multiple courts, including the Supreme Court, ordered his return and compliance, framing a potential executive defiance of judicial authority.
  • He was returned to U.S. custody to face disputed smuggling charges amid ongoing risk of removal to El Salvador or a third country.

Articles in this Cluster

Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say - The New York Times

03-07-2025

Lawyers for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March, say he was beaten, deprived of sleep, denied bathroom access, and psychologically tortured during nearly three months at El Salvador’s CECOT prison, losing about 31 pounds. Court filings claim Salvadoran officials acknowledged he was not in a gang and that his tattoos were not gang-related, countering U.S. allegations and comments by President Trump. Abrego Garcia was unexpectedly returned to the U.S. in June to face federal immigrant-smuggling charges in Nashville, but his legal status is uncertain amid conflicting signals from the Trump administration over whether he might be deported again, potentially to a third country. His attorneys seek a court order preventing removal and his release from U.S. custody; upcoming hearings in Maryland and Tennessee will determine whether he remains jailed and whether immigration authorities can proceed with deportation.
Entities: Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, El Salvador, CECOT prison, U.S. Department of Justice, Trump administration • Tone: urgent • Sentiment: negative • Intent: inform

Read Abrego Garcia’s Court Filing - The New York Times

03-07-2025

The filing is a first amended and supplemental complaint in federal court by Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, his wife, and their U.S.-citizen child, seeking injunctive and declaratory relief against top federal officials. It alleges that despite a 2019 withholding-of-removal order protecting Abrego Garcia from deportation to El Salvador, ICE unlawfully arrested him on March 12, 2025, threatened to take his child, and secretly removed him to El Salvador without due process. While held in El Salvador—allegedly in coordination with U.S. authorities—he was threatened and tortured. Multiple courts, including the District of Maryland, the Fourth Circuit, and unanimously the U.S. Supreme Court, ordered the government to facilitate his release and return and to treat his case as if he had never been removed. Plaintiffs assert the government defied these orders, only returning him on June 2, 2025 to face a criminal smuggling charge, while leaving him at ongoing risk of removal and refoulement. The complaint frames the conduct as a constitutional crisis—executive defiance of judicial authority—and asks the court to restore the status quo ante (as of March 12, 2025), enforce compliance, and provide ongoing oversight and relief. Jurisdiction, venue, and defendants’ roles within DHS/ICE are detailed.
Entities: Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, U.S. Supreme Court, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), District of Maryland • Tone: urgent • Sentiment: negative • Intent: warn

Kilmar Ábrego García was tortured in Salvadorian prison, court filing alleges | Kilmar Ábrego García | The Guardian

03-07-2025

Court filings allege that Kilmar Ábrego García, a Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador, was physically and psychologically tortured during three months at the Cecot megaprison. He and others were forced to kneel overnight for hours, beaten if they faltered, denied bathroom access, held in an overcrowded, windowless, constantly lit cell, and confined to bare metal bunks; he reportedly lost 31 pounds in two weeks. Officials acknowledged he was not a gang member and even staged photos suggesting improved conditions, while threatening to place him with alleged gang members. Ábrego García, now back in U.S. federal custody in Nashville, faces human-smuggling charges he denies; the Trump administration has labeled him MS-13 despite contrary statements in the filings. Conflicting government positions on deporting him to El Salvador or a third country have led his lawyers to keep him in custody to prevent removal as courts in Maryland and Tennessee determine his status and potential release.
Entities: Kilmar Ábrego García, Cecot megaprison, El Salvador, U.S. federal custody, MS-13 • Tone: analytical • Sentiment: negative • Intent: inform