Who is Kilmar Armando Ábrego García

 

Salvadoran man, Kilmar Armando Ábrego García has made headlines in the media space after Ghana government refused to accept his deportation in the country.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa in a social media post said “Ghana is not accepting Abrego Garcia. He cannot be deported to Ghana.”

“This has been directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities. In my interactions with US officials, I made clear that our understanding to accept a limited number of non-criminal West Africans, purely on the grounds of African solidarity and humanitarian principles would not be expanded. Ghana strongly objects to these misleading media reports.”

Who is Kilmar Armando Ábrego García

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was born in the Los Nogales neighborhood of San Salvador, El Salvador, in July 1995. In El Salvador, the Barrio 18 criminal gang extorted his mother’s pupusa (a street food) business for money and threatened that if she did not pay the money, they would force her eldest son, Cesar, to join the gang; the gang later threatened to kill him.

As a result, the family paid the money and hid Cesar, eventually sending him to the United States. Barrio 18 then turned its attention to Kilmar, who was around 12 years old. The gang followed Kilmar and continued to threaten his family. Eventually, when Kilmar was 16 years old, his family sent him to the US as well. Court documents indicate that around 2011 or 2012, he illegally crossed the Mexico–US border near McAllen, Texas. In other court documents, the government stated that he entered the US “at or near an unknown place on or about an unknown date”.

Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man living in the United States, was illegally deported on March 15, 2025, by the US government under the Trump administration, which called it “an administrative error”. At the time, he had never been charged with or convicted of a crime in either country; despite this, he was imprisoned without trial in the Salvadoran Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).

His case became the most prominent of the hundreds of migrants the US sent to be jailed without trial at CECOT under the countries’ agreement where the US would pay the Salvadoran government to imprison US deportees there. The administration defended the deportation and accused Garcia of being a member of MS-13—a US-designated terrorist organization—based on a determination made during a 2019 immigration court bail proceeding. Abrego Garcia has denied the allegation.

After Abrego Garcia was deported, his wife filed suit in Maryland asking that the US government return him to the US. The district court judge ordered the government to “facilitate and effectuate” his return. The government appealed, and on April 10, 2025, the Supreme Court stated unanimously that the government must “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return to the US.

The administration interpreted “facilitate” to mean it was not obligated to seek his release, and it was up to El Salvador whether to release him.

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