Nick Penzenstadler

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Nick Penzenstadler

The Maryland wife of the wrongfully deported Salvadoran immigrant briefly faced a custody challenge over the children she shared with another man. Court documents show Edwin Ramos filed a custody petition in 2018 against Jennifer Vasquez Sura. The pair had children born in 2014 and 2015 that were then raised by Vasquez Sura and Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is at the center of the immigration debate that has reached the Supreme Court.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Will Carless |Eduardo Cuevas |Nick Penzenstadler |Michael Collins

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador ― The tiny neighborhood of Los Nogales, with its pinkish-red bougainvilleas and a small knot of streets rising above El Salvador’s capital, seems cut off from the sprawling city below. Senda 3, a cul-de-sac at the heart of the neighborhood, dead-ends into bushes and trees. Houses are jammed together. Neighbors walk a few steps to makeshift tiendas, or shops, nestled inside front rooms behind plastic sheeting, or metal bars, or both.

1 month ago | usatoday.com | Will Carless |Eduardo Cuevas |Nick Penzenstadler |Michael Collins

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador ― The tiny neighborhood of Los Nogales, with its pinkish-red bougainvilleas and a small knot of streets rising above El Salvador’s capital, seems cut off from the sprawling city below. Senda 3, a cul-de-sac at the heart of the neighborhood, dead-ends into bushes and trees. Houses are jammed together. Neighbors walk a few steps to makeshift tiendas, or shops, nestled inside front rooms behind plastic sheeting, or metal bars, or both.

1 month ago | usatoday.com | Nick Penzenstadler

Actor Mel Gibson has his firearms rights back along with nine others, including a former NFL player, who petitioned the government for pardons for their decades-old crimes. The issue became a flashpoint for the Justice Department in March, when Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer refused to add Gibson to a pilot program that had whittled a list of 95 non-violent offenders down to nine who had passed rigorous FBI background checks.

1 month ago | usatoday.com | Nick Penzenstadler

Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he met with the Kilmar Garcia Abrego, a man wrongly deported to El Salvador on April 17. In a message posted on X, Van Hollen wrote, “I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.”Moments before that message and image appeared, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele posted three additional photos from the meeting.