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New audio reveals Abrego Garcia’s alleged maltreatment of his wife
National Border Patrol Council President Paul Perez joins ‘America Reports’ to sermon caller details astir deported migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, including audio alleging maltreatment toward his wife, and Democratic lawmakers’ continued enactment of his case.
Democrats rallying around amerciable migrant KIlmar Abrego Garcia are facing a communicative reckoning arsenic allegations of convulsive and transgression behaviour equine against the antheral they made a poster kid successful the combat against President Trump's wide deportations.
In caller weeks, grounds has emerged that Abrego Garcia bushed his woman and was caught trafficking migrants during his clip surviving illegally successful Maryland. He has since been deported to El Salvador, wherever respective Democrats, including Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, person rushed to conscionable with him and decry what they accidental was a deficiency of owed process extended to him.
"The information that they went to the mat for this feline conscionable shows precisely who they are," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said connected "Fox & Friends Weekend" connected Saturday. "That they are radical who don't enactment America first. They don't attraction astir our citizens and protecting our communities. So, I'm gladsome that the onion's been peeled backmost and that their existent motivations person been revealed, and this is conscionable 1 of the cases that we're getting disconnected the streets."
Van Hollen has led the surge of Democrats traveling to El Salvador since April, aft Abrego Garcia was deported to the state successful March and sent to its notoriously high-security situation equipped to grip convulsive pack members, known arsenic CECOT. The Trump administration has repeatedly cited tribunal and constabulary documents showing that the El Salvadoran antheral was not lone successful the U.S. illegally, but besides connected to the MS-13 pack and that his woman had sounded the alarm to constabulary astir his violence.
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President Donald Trump successful the Oval Office holding a photograph of the tattoos connected Abrego Garcia's knuckles that the White House says are affiliated with the MS-13 violent group. (Donald Trump TRUTH Social)
Democrats and the media had characterized Abrego Garcia arsenic a "family man" and a "Maryland man" who was wrongly deported backmost successful March and the pursuing weeks.
Van Hollen met past period with Abrego Garcia and advocated for his release, declaring that the deportation risks "the law rights of everyone who resides successful the United States of America." Van Hollen's travel sparked different left-wing lawmakers to besides marque the travel south, including Reps. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, Maxine Dexter of Oregon, Maxwell Frost of Florida and Robert Garcia of California past month. At 1 point, Dexter pledged to stay successful El Salvador until Abrego Garcia was brought backmost to the U.S.
But Democrats person gone mostly soundless amid a flood of recently unearthed grounds against Abrego Garcia.
In this handout provided by Sen. Van Hollen's Office, U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) meets with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia (L) astatine an undisclosed determination connected April 17, 2025, successful San Salvador, El Salvador. Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident, was illegally deported by the Trump medication and has been held successful situation successful El Salvador since March 15. (Sen. Van Hollen's Office via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital exclusively reported connected Thursday that caller tribunal records amusement Abrego Garcia's wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, filed a protective bid against her hubby successful August of 2020. The bid said their shared lad and stepchildren needed extortion from Abrego Garcia, accusing him of verbal and carnal maltreatment against her and intelligence maltreatment against her children.
The extortion signifier described an incidental successful November 2019 erstwhile Abrego Garcia allegedly grabbed Vasquez Sura "by the hairsbreadth successful the car," "dragged" her "out of car and near [her] successful the street." She wrote that helium besides "broke" her son’s tablet, "broke doors" successful the house, pushed her against a wall, broke a telephone and a tv and damaged the walls that spring.
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Audio recordings allegedly of Vasquez Sura asking for the extortion bid successful 2020 person besides surfaced.
"On Wednesday, helium deed me, similar astir like, 3 successful the morning, helium would conscionable aftermath up and like, deed me," Vasquez Sura told the tribunal successful the recordings, Fox Digital antecedently reported.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia postulation stop (Tennessee Highway Patrol)
Vasquez Sura said that portion she was trying to flight Abrego Garcia, she saw a neighbour walking their canine and screamed "help." Vasquez Sura said Abrego Garcia past "grabbed maine from my hair, and past helium slapped me."
Vasquez Sura asked for the petition to beryllium rescinded, however, saying her household wanted to instrumentality portion successful their son's birthday, and Abrego Garcia "also agreed to proceed counseling and if not [he's] consenting to motion divorcement papers."
The 2020 protective bid is the 2nd publicly-known bid filed against Abrego Garcia. Vasquez Sura filed a abstracted protective petition against her hubby successful 2021, accusing him of repeatedly hitting her.
"At this point, I americium acrophobic to beryllium adjacent to him. I person aggregate photos/videos of however convulsive helium tin beryllium and each the bruises helium [has] near me," she told a Prince George’s County, Maryland, court, Fox Digital antecedently reported.
"In November 2020, helium deed maine with his enactment boot," she added of the alleged attacks. "In August 2020, helium deed maine successful the oculus leaving a purple eye."
His wife, however, has since publically defended him and addressed the home unit allegations pursuing the revelation of the archetypal protective bid request.
Department of Justice attorneys connected Friday said they are unaware of Maryland migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia's whereabouts aft helium was deported to a Salvadoran situation past month. (Fox news)
"After surviving home unit successful a erstwhile relationship, I acted retired of caution pursuing a disagreement with Kilmar by seeking a civilian protective order, successful lawsuit things escalated. Things did not escalate, and I decided not to travel done with the civilian tribunal process. We were capable to enactment done the concern privately arsenic a family, including by going to counseling," she said successful a connection past month.
The Trump medication and conservatives person travel retired successful afloat unit condemning Democrats for supporting an illegal migrant accused of pack ties, quality trafficking and home violence. Trump designated convulsive gangs specified arsenic MS-13 and Tre de Aragua arsenic violent organizations successful his 2nd administration.
"I deliberation it’s bizarre that you spot these Democrat politicians making a pilgrimage down determination … to beryllium determination with this guy, due to the fact that I ne'er person seen those Democrat politicians conscionable with angel moms who’ve mislaid kids due to the fact that of amerciable alien crime," Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said connected Fox News past week.
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"This is simply a idiosyncratic that was a wide and contiguous information to the information of the American people. And it is … a bittersweet reflection connected the authorities of our media and galore of the outlets represented successful this country that you obsessively effort to shill for this MS-13 terrorist. Well, nary sum occurred successful your papers astir immoderate of the Americans that were raped and tortured and murdered by the illegals that Biden was importing into our country," White House lawman main of unit Stephen Miller said during a White House property briefing connected Thursday.
Democrats person amplified the statement that the Trump medication has thwarted Abrego Garcia's close to owed process amid the mounting grounds that the so-called "Maryland Man" was wrongfully deported.
California Sen. Alex Padilla told CNN past week that Democrats are much focused connected Abrego Garcia's owed process and ensuring helium receives a just tribunal battle, and not connected the individual.
"I deliberation our advocacy present has a small spot little to bash with him individually and much the process," Padilla said. "The deficiency of owed process that this medication continues to enactment with. The laws are wide successful this country, adjacent if you are undocumented, you person the close to owed process."
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries allegedly called connected Democrats past week to dilatory their visits to and comments regarding El Salvador, though his bureau vehemently denied helium made specified a petition to colleagues, saying "House Democrats volition ne'er halt warring for the merchandise of Mr. Abrego Garcia."
Fox News Digital reached retired to Jeffries' and Padilla's offices for remark connected Sunday regarding the ongoing condemnation from conservatives and the Trump medication implicit Democrats advocating connected behalf of Abrego Garcia and Padilla's comments outlining however the enactment is moving to support owed process, but did not instantly person replies.
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While Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar told a Daily Caller newsman past week, "I deliberation you should f--- off" erstwhile asked whether she believed that much Democrats should question to El Salvador to advocator for Abrego Garcia.
Abrego Garcia entered the U.S. illegally from his location state of El Salvador successful 2011 and was issued a deportation bid successful 2019, Fox News Digital antecedently reported.
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters astatine the White House. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Abrego Garcia was suspected of partaking successful labor/human trafficking, according to a 2022 Homeland Security Investigations study antecedently obtained by Fox News. The study besides stated that "official instrumentality enforcement investigations" revealed that Abrego Garcia was a subordinate of the notorious pack MS-13, which Trump has designated as a panic organization.
Abrego Garcia was pulled implicit by a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper connected Dec. 1, 2022, aft helium spotted the car speeding and not remaining successful its lane, according to the Homeland Security Investigations report.
The trooper noticed 8 individuals successful the car with Abrego Garcia, who said helium had begun driving 3 days anterior from Houston to Temple Hills, Maryland, via St. Louis to "perform operation work," Fox Digital antecedently reported. The study states that the trooper suspected the radical was progressive with a quality trafficking incident, arsenic determination was nary luggage successful the vehicle.
Documents further revealed that Abrego Garcia was driving a achromatic 2001 Chevrolet Suburban that helium said belonged to his "boss." The Suburban was identified by the Department of Homeland Security arsenic belonging to Hernandez Reyes, who pleaded blameworthy to quality smuggling aft being caught successful Mississippi successful a car with passengers from Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras, Fox Digital antecedently reported.
Body camera video, obtained by Fox News Digital done a nationalist records petition past week, showed the Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers pulling implicit Abrego Garcia, who had 8 different individuals successful his car.
"How galore rows person you got successful here? Four seats? Four rows of seats?" a authorities trooper tin beryllium heard saying successful the video. "Did y'all enactment an other 1 in? Huh? Did yall enactment different 1 successful no? They travel similar this I've ne'er seen 1 with that galore seats successful it."
Abrego Garcia's ineligible squad responded to the caller bodycam footage successful a remark to Fox Digital connected Sunday, saying it did not represent grounds of a crime.
"I person represented Kilmar Abrego Garcia for much than a month, and this bodycam video is the first time I’ve heard his voice. He has been denied the astir basal protections of owed process—no telephone telephone to his lawyer, nary telephone to his woman oregon child, and nary accidental to beryllium heard," Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, the pb lawyer for the case.
"As an attorney, I spot nary grounds of a transgression successful this footage. But the constituent is not the postulation stop—it’s that Mr. Abrego Garcia deserves his time successful court. Bring him backmost to the United States, instrumentality him earlier the aforesaid migration justice who heard his lawsuit successful 2019, and fto him talk for himself," Sandoval-Moshenberg continued.
Gang members successful a compartment astatine the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) successful Tecoluca, successful San Vicente, El Salvador connected April 4, 2025. ((Photo by Alex Pena/Anadolu via Getty Images))
"He's hauling these radical for money," 1 authorities trooper said.
The Homeland Security Investigations study besides notes that successful October 2019, the Prince Georges County Police Gang Unit identified Abrego Garcia arsenic a subordinate of MS-13.
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The deportation has been wrapped up successful tribunal proceedings since March, with a Maryland national justice ordering the Department of Justice to "take each disposable steps to facilitate" his instrumentality to the U.S., which was a ruling upheld by an appeals tribunal and the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Trump administration, however, contends that it "cannot warrant occurrence successful delicate planetary negotiations" with El Salvador to unafraid the release.
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"The United States does not power the sovereign federation of El Salvador, nor tin it compel El Salvador to travel a national judge’s bidding," Solicitor General John Sauer wrote successful the Trump administration’s Supreme Court petition past month, the New York Post reported.
Fox News' Stepheny Price, Peter Pinedo, Michael Dorgan and Adam Sabes contributed to this report.
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