Donald Trump’s administration said Thursday that it might try to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador again if he successfully opens an asylum case, which experts say seems promising. Having already been illegally sent by the Trump administration to a Salvadoran prison where he said he was tortured, and …
Read More »Trump Admin Arrests Kilmar Abrego Garcia Again, Ready to Deport Him to Uganda
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has never set foot in Uganda, but President Donald Trump’s administration is currently “processing” his deportation to the East African nation after rearresting him at a mandated check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Abrego Garcia’s renewed detention is the latest escalation by the Trump administration in their …
Read More »'He Isn't Getting Away': Trump Admin Plans to Send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda
Donald Trump’s administration now intends to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man it unlawfully sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador, to Uganda — after he refused a plea deal, was released from jail, and was allowed to return to his family. “We are not going to stop …
Read More »Migrants Freed From El Salvador Prison Allege Torture
After spending four months incarcerated in El Salvador’s notoriously brutal prison system after President Donald Trump’s administration wrongfully sent them there, recently freed Venezuelan migrant men are speaking out about the abuse and torture they endured in the foreign gulag. The over 250 Venezuelan migrants the Trump administration deported to …
Read More »Ada and Her Family Fled El Salvador. She Died Alone in the New Mexico Desert
H er skeleton lay in the open air. When they first approached the site, in the desert of Sunland Park, New Mexico, in August 2024, the volunteer search party found a body dispersed across the landscape, a rib here, a leg bone there. An intact jawbone sat crooked on the …
Read More »Human Rights Defenders Are Fleeing El Salvador as Bukele Cracks Down
In early June, a career journalist in El Salvador received a call from a government source. Their name was on a list of more than a dozen individuals the administration of President Nayib Bukele planned to have arrested. “I left the country the next morning,” they tell Rolling Stone. “I …
Read More »El Salvador Admits U.S. Has Custody of Migrants Trump Sent to Prison There
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s unlawful transfer of hundreds of migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador, the administration claimed that it had no legal authority to bring them back to the United States. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele claimed, in turn, that he did not “have the …
Read More »Judge Skewers Trump Admin's Terrible Case Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia
U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara D. Holmes acknowledged that Kilmar Abrego Garcia will almost certainly be re-arrested by the Department of Homeland Security despite her order for his release from federal custody, but that didn’t stop her from eviscerating the Trump administration’s embarrassing attempts to paint him as a hardened criminal …
Read More »Trump 'Doesn't Speak With Precision,' Justice Department Tells Judge
A lawyer for Donald Trump’s Justice Department recently argued in court that sometimes the president just says stuff — and it doesn’t matter if what Trump says is or isn’t accurate, because his comments aren’t necessarily reflective of the government’s position on a given matter. During an April 30 court …
Read More »Trump Finally Brings Back Illegally Deported Man — to Indict Him
It’s been nearly two months since the Supreme Court ordered Donald Trump to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom his administration illegally deported to the notorious prison system in El Salvador. On Friday, the Trump administration finally complied with this directive, returning Abrego Garcia to the United …
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