WASHINGTON—Protesters held multiple rallies across Washington on May 1, demanding that the Trump administration have Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to the United States from confinement in El Salvador.
Abrego Garcia, 29, is a Salvadoran national who entered the U.S. illegally sometime in 2012, according to documents released by the Department of Justice. In 2019, he was arrested in Maryland and ordered to be removed from the United States, but the removal to El Salvador was withheld by a judge per a provision of law that prevents removal to countries with a “clear probability” of persecution. During his period of immigration custody, he married Jennifer Vasquez Sura—a U.S. citizen, with whom he fathered an autistic child—and was later released temporarily, though the order of removal remained.
