Abrego Garcia Moved to El Salvador Detention Facility, Given Own Room: State Department

The State Department said the illegal immigrant was given a bed and furniture of his own in a lower security detention facility in El Salvador.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, in an undated file photograph. Abrego Garcia Family/Handout via Reuters

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant who was deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, has been transferred from the country’s maximum-security prison to a detention facility, where he now has his own room, according to an April 20 court filing by the U.S. State Department.

Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native, illegally entered the United States in 2011 and was living in Maryland. He was arrested and deported to El Salvador in March for allegedly being a member of the MS-13 gang, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, despite an immigration judge having issued a withholding of removal—which legally barred his deportation to his home country—in 2019 because of concerns for his safety.