In a startling revelation in the deportation case of Maryland’s Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, it has now been found that he was referred to as a gang member in a 2018 lawsuit, The lawsuit was, however, filed by the ex-husband of Abrego Garcia and the father of their two children. “She is dating a gang member,” Jennifer Vasquez Sura’s ex, Edwin Trejo Ramos alleged in the petition filed in Prince George’s County Circuit Court in Maryland.
In the lawsuit, Ramos said he feared for his children’s lives as Sura had tried to kill herself and had left the kids with an 11-year-old babysitter.
Garcia met Sura, a US citizen, in 2016 and moved together in 2018. One year later, they got married in 2019 while Garcia was held at an immigration center.
The Garcia issue has become a major controversy of the Donald Trump administration after he was deported to El Salvador and a court ruled that he had to be brought back as the Donald Trump administration could not provide enough evidence to prove that Garcia is an MS-13 gang member.
The US pushed the ball to Salvador’s court and said that if the Salvadoran government releases Garcia, then he would be brought back to the US. But Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele dismissed the idea of releasing a criminal as ‘preposterous’.
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Trump administration asserted that he is an MS-13 member and has tattoos on his knuckles, confirming the same.
Is US having a second thought about Garcia?
In his interview with the ABC News on the occasion of completing 100 days of his administration, Trump said he could bring back Garcia, but he won’t, as he is a member of MS-13. But CNN reported that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele have been directly in touch about the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
A US official told CNN the Trump administration has been working closely with El Salvador and asked for Abrego Garcia’s return but insisted that Bukele has made clear that he’s not returning him to the US, citing an Oval Office meeting between Bukele and President Donald Trump this month.
