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Abrego Garcia

2025-04-14 Pam Bondi asserted that Abrego-Garcia was MS13 and that it was not up to the US to return him. In the same press conference, Stephen Miller claimed that the media was arrogant for telling El Salvador how to handle their citizens, and El Salvador president Bukele said he couldn’t “smuggle a terrorist” back into the US.

2025-04-30 The White House peddled an altered image of the alpha-numeric “M-S-1-3” across Abrego Garcia’s hand and claimed it was a tattoo. Trump insisted during an interview that the image was authentic.

2025-05-04 During a Meet the Press interview, Trump did not deny the Abrego Garcia arrest was an administrative error but said that the president of El Salvador would have to decide if Garcia could come back to the US or not.

2025-08-25 DHS detained Kilmar Abrego Garcia and reportedly offered the ultimatum deportation to Costa Rica if he pleaded guilty or Uganda if he refused.

https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/08/23/government-offered-costa-rica-deal-to-kilmar-abrego-garcia-now-plans-to-send-him-to-uganda/

https://marylandmatters.org/2025/08/23/ice-plans-to-deport-kilmar-abrego-garcia-to-uganda-after-he-rejects-plea-deal/

2026-05-22 A Tennessee judge dismissed all criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ruling that the then deputy attorney general Todd Blanche had tainted the investigation with a “vindictive motive”, and that “the evidence before this court sadly reflects an abuse of prosecuting power”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1omqCrvapw&list=WL&index=3

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/23/nx-s1-5831979/tennessee-judge-dismisses-federal-human-smuggling-charges-against-kilmar-abrego-garcia

2025 March

2025-03-16 After a court ordered a deportation flight turned around, Tom Homan said, “I don’t care what the judges think.” Trump called for the judge’s impeachment, while El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele mocked the ruling on social media, “oopsie, too late” and a laugh-cry emoji.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-admin-ignores-judges-order-bring-deportation-planes/story?id=119857181

https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1901238762614517965?lang=en

2025 May

2025-05-16 The Supreme Court blocked deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, but Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas claimed the court didn’t have the jurisdiction to stop deportations.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/16/g-s1-67244/supreme-court-texas-alien-enemies-act

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-justice-alitos-dissent-from-late-night-supreme-court-order-blocking-some-deportations

2025 June

2025-06-11 A federal judge blocked Trump from deporting Mahmoud Khalil, ruling that it was unconstitutional to detain or deport someone based on their political advocacy.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/federal-judge-blocks-trump-from-continuing-to-detain-mahmoud-khalil-over-his-political-activism/

2025 August

2025-08-28 The Trump administration deported detainees to Rwanda and South Sudan.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/more-african-nations-are-receiving-third-country-immigrants-deported-by-the-u-s-here-are-5-things-to-know

2025 September

2025-09-12 An immigration judge in Louisiana ordered deportation of Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil to Algeria or Syria, accusing him of failing to disclose information on a green card application.

https://progressive.international/wire/2025-09-24-immigration-judge-orders-mahmoud-khalil-to-be-deported/en

2025-09-25 Detainees formerly kept at Alligator Alcatraz came up missing and unaccounted for.

2025 November

2025-11-13 The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops rebuked the mass deportations, calling it “dehumanizing rhetoric and violence”.

https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/us-bishops-fall-plenary-assembly-meet-november-10-13

https://www.denvercatholic.org/us-bishops-issue-a-special-message-on-immigration

2025-11-14 ICE deported Purple Heart veteran with PTSD Jose Barco in Florence Arizona.

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/activists-express-worries-after-az-purple-heart-combat-veteran-was-deported

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/14/purple-heart-veteran-deported

https://news.azpm.org/p/azpmnews/2025/11/17/227275-purple-heart-iraq-veteran-deported-to-unknown-location/

https://www.denver7.com/news/investigations/jose-barco-the-purple-heart-recipient-in-ice-custody-since-january-has-been-deported-attorney

2025 December

2025-12-13 When Kristi Noem claimed DHS had not detained any US citizens or military veterans Representative Seth Magaziner of Rhode Island provided key testimonies from multiple combat veterans who had been detained and were legal citizens.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/us/video/kristi-noem-congressional-hearing-deported-veteran-vrtc-digvid

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-rep-magaziner-confronts-noem-with-deported-u-s-military-veteran-on-zoom-in-hearing

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-confronted-veteran-contentious-hearing/story?id=128325824

2026 February

2026-02-16 A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to return Babson College student Annie Lucia Lopez Belloza. Belloza was on her way to her family for Thanksgiving when she was detained and wrongfully deported to Honduras.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/us/babson-college-student-deported-thanksgiving-hnk

https://abcnews.com/US/exclusive-student-living-american-dream-deported-despite-judges/story?id=128076781

2026 May

2026-05-15 A federal judge ordered Trump administration to return a woman (Adriana Maria Quiroz Zapata) deported to the Democratic Republic of Congo by ICE.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/15/headlines/court_orders_trump_administration_to_return_colombian_woman_deported_to_congo

2026-05-22 A Tennessee judge dismissed all criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ruling that the then deputy attorney general Todd Blanche had tainted the investigation with a “vindictive motive”, and that “the evidence before this court sadly reflects an abuse of prosecuting power”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1omqCrvapw&list=WL&index=3

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/23/nx-s1-5831979/tennessee-judge-dismisses-federal-human-smuggling-charges-against-kilmar-abrego-garcia

2026 June

2026-06-12 The State Department opened an investigation into Trita Parsi for reporting on the war in Iran, and now he faces deportation.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/12/headlines/report_state_dept_opens_probe_of_iranian_born_trita_parsi_critic_of_trumps_war

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/06/15/us-iran-peace-deal-could-be-a-game-changer-for-the-whole-region.html

2026-06-30 US Immigration sent detainees to Venezuela in the aftermath of the earthquake.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3eyxjy01y3o

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/30/nx-s1-5875287/venezuela-deportees-us-quakes

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/30/world/venezuela-earthquakes-deportations-ice-intl-hnk

SUB WALL https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-06-30/venezeula-earthquake-deportees