
Laura Romero
Reporter at ABC News
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5 days ago |
yahoo.com | Laura Romero |Peter Charalambous |James Hill |Ely Brown |Armando Garcia |Katherine Faulders
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native living Maryland, was deported in March to a mega-prison in his home country of El Salvador -- despite a 2019 court order barring his deportation to that country due to fear of persecution -- after the Trump administration claimed he was a member of the criminal gang MS-13.
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6 days ago |
ca.news.yahoo.com | Isabella Murray |Leah Sarnoff |Laura Romero |Ivan Pereira
After flying to El Salvador in search of a meeting with the Maryland resident who courts say was erroneously deported from the United States last month, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., shared a photo with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The Maryland senator, who flew to the country on Wednesday, shared a photo on X on Thursday evening of him sitting down with Abrego Garcia. "I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance.
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6 days ago |
wsbradio.com | Isabella Murray |Leah Sarnoff |Laura Romero
WASHINGTON — After flying to El Salvador in search of a meeting with the Maryland resident who courts say was erroneously deported from the United States last month, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., shared a photo with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The Maryland senator, who flew to the country on Wednesday, shared a photo on X on Thursday evening of him sitting down with Abrego Garcia. "I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance.
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1 week ago |
southernillinoisnow.com | Peter Charalambous |Laura Romero |Soo Kim |Armando Garcia
(WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice filed notice Wednesday that it will appeal the order from a federal judge requiring the government to facilitate the return of wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador, on the same day the it released two documents that were previously used to allegedly tie him to the criminal gang MS-13.
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1 week ago |
abcnews.go.com | Jared Kofsky |James Hill |Laura Romero |Armando Garcia
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is currently incarcerated in El Salvador. ByJared Kofsky, James Hill, Laura Romero, and Armando GarciaKilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant in this handout image obtained by Reuters on April 9, 2025.
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ABC: The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador is at the center of a legal battle with the Trump administration, had a temporary order of protection against him in 2021 in which she cited being slapped, hit with an object,

Saying "The Supreme Court has spoken," U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered expedited discovery -- in which officials are put under oath -- in order to "apply the law to the facts." The judge told Justice Department lawyers that she was ordering expedited discovery

Mohsen Mahdawi, a permanent resident of the U.S., was arrested and detained after attending his naturalization interview in Vermont @GarciaReports https://t.co/RK6cpiqYD0