She didn’t know Abrego Garcia had been deported until she identified him in a jail inmate picture. Abrego Garcia was first detained by immigration officials on March 12.
Abrego Garcia was arrested in Texas after being stopped by ICE. “His immigration status had changed,” he was misinformed, according to court filings on March 31.
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Multiple publications have claimed that Abrego Garcia was given protected status “based on concerns that.
He could be persecuted by gangs” if he returned to El Salvador, despite the fact that he entered the country illegally as a teenager in 2011.