Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
2025 US extrajudicial deportation
Why this is trending
Interest in “Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia” spiked on Wikipedia on 2026-02-25.
Categorised under Politics & Government, this article fits a familiar pattern. In the political arena, trending patterns usually correspond to legislative developments, summits, or emerging controversies.
GlyphSignal tracks these patterns daily, turning raw Wikipedia traffic data into a curated feed of what the world is curious about. Every spike tells a story.
Key Takeaways
- Kilmar Armando Ábrego García , a Salvadoran man living in the United States, was illegally deported on March 15, 2025, by the US government under the Trump administration, which called it "an administrative error".
- His case became the most prominent of the hundreds of migrants the US sent to be jailed without trial at CECOT under the countries' agreement where the US would pay the Salvadoran government to imprison US deportees there.
- Abrego Garcia has denied the allegation.
- In 2019, an immigration judge granted him withholding of removal status due to the danger he would face from gang violence if he returned to El Salvador.
- At the time of his deportation in 2025, he lived in Maryland with his wife and children, who are all American citizens, and he was complying with annual US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) check-ins.
Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man living in the United States, was illegally deported on March 15, 2025, by the US government under the Trump administration, which called it "an administrative error". At the time, he had never been charged with or convicted of a crime in either country; despite this, he was imprisoned without trial in the Salvadoran Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). His case became the most prominent of the hundreds of migrants the US sent to be jailed without trial at CECOT under the countries' agreement where the US would pay the Salvadoran government to imprison US deportees there. The administration defended the deportation and accused Abrego Garcia of being a member of MS-13—a US-designated terrorist organization—based on a county police report mentioned during a 2019 immigration court bail proceeding. Abrego Garcia has denied the allegation.
Abrego Garcia grew up in El Salvador, and around 2011, at age 16, he illegally immigrated to the United States to escape gang threats. In 2019, an immigration judge granted him withholding of removal status due to the danger he would face from gang violence if he returned to El Salvador. This status allowed him to live and work legally in the US. At the time of his deportation in 2025, he lived in Maryland with his wife and children, who are all American citizens, and he was complying with annual US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) check-ins.
Content sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0
