Discarded and arrested: The mistake around Kilmar Ábrego García

Discarded and arrested: The mistake around Kilmar Ábrego García

Maryland, USA - Kilmars Ábrego García, a Salvadorian citizen, was brought back to the USA on Friday after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. According to Welt said US Justice Minister Pam Bondi that he was immediately arrested. The deportation occurred due to an "administrative error" of the US immigration and customs authority (ICE). Ábrego García belonged to over 250 migrants who were detained in El Salvador on March 15. On his return, he is accused of having done human smuggling.

The US government even admitted that the deportation was a mistake because García enjoyed protection in the USA from attacks and arrests. A court had annuled a deportation order against him in 2019, which could not be done without a legal starting position. The government's Supreme Court instructed the government in April to work for its return.

allegations and legal context

Donald Trump described García as a member of the notorious Salvadorian gang MS-13 and accused him of being a "terrorist", but without providing evidence. Ábrego García himself denies the affiliation to this gang: lawyers emphasize that there are no evidence against him that would justify a arrest, such as Tageschau . The indictment is based on a traffic control from 2022, but the officials at that time had it continued with a warning because of an expired driver's license.

his wife expressed that he occasionally transported workers from one job to another and did not commit a criminal offense. Should the accusations apply to him, he could be deported to El Salvador again. In the United States, there are currently numerous migrants with similar fates that suffer from a tough migration policy initiated by the Trump government, as is also supported by President Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, such as T-Online describes.

losses and human rights issues

The procedures for deportation and the conditions of detention in El Salvador are criticized. Human rights organizations report dangerous conditions of detention and the treatment of migrants. Between Trump's taking office and March, only 32,000 migrants were arrested in the United States, which are eligible for deportation, while hundreds of high-security prisons were sent to El Salvador after the US government classified them as criminal.

ábrego García, who had been living illegally in the USA since 2011 and had fled from El Salvador so as not to be subject to gang violence, is now facing an uncertain future. In view of the current situation, his legal options remain questionable, since US dishes can no longer obtain probabilities for release.