El Salvador

After the DOJ announced Kilmar Abrego Garcia had been returned to the U.S. and charged with transporting undocumented immigrants, Abrego Garcia’s attorney vowed to vigorously fight the allegations.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been returned to the U.S. to face charges of transporting undocumented immigrants.

Two Long Island brothers were left shocked and confused after federal agents had them deported to El Salvador, as their lawyer called it unfair they had been removed from “the only home they have ever known” despite having done nothing wrong. “We are not a threat to the country. We are not criminals,” said Jose Lopez, 20. He and brother Josue,…

Two brothers on Long Island were deported to El Salvador. Their lawyer says they had been living in the U.S. illegally for nine years, but have no criminal history. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

The sprawling penitentiary where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was last known to be held offers a sharp contrast to the supermax mega-prison to which he was first deported. 

There was the pool furniture in the background. There were the tropical drinks, which looked to be margaritas garnished with cherries.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen revealed new details about his meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who the Trump admin says was mistakenly deported.

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen met Thursday evening with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is being held in an El Salvador prison after wrongly being deported from Maryland.

The Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, is a mega-prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland sheet metal worker, was wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Trump administration officials emphasized he is a citizen of El Salvador and that the U.S. has no say in his future.

Sitting beside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele told reporters he would not return a man the Justice Department said it mistakenly deported to his country, NBC News reported.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Beltsville, Maryland, father, was wrongfully deported to El Salvador, ICE admits. News4 takes a deep dive into what happened and what could be next.

For the first time, two women are speaking out in an interview with NBC News, describing the chaos they say they witnessed during the Trump administration’s deportation efforts and how, they allege, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials deceived them about where they were being taken.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says sending a Maryland man with protected status to prison in El Salvador almost three weeks ago was an “administrative error.”

MS-13 is a transnational criminal gang that has been declared a terrorist organization by El Salvador and the U.S.

Current laws “would categorically preclude most U.S. citizens and residents from serving their sentence in El Salvador,” a former U.S. attorney said.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States.

The Department of Homeland Security says about 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 200,000 El Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months.

To many, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is a national hero who took on the country’s violent gangs with an unrelenting hand. To others, the populist is a 21st century autocrat who has committed mass human rights abuses and has altered the rules of the game to concentrate power in his own hands.