WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Ranking Member of the Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee, released the following statement regarding the abduction and deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia by the Trump Administration, which has since admitted that he was accidentally picked up due to an ‘administrative error’:
“Whether it is Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, Khalil Mahmoud, Alfredo Juarez, Lewelyn Dixon, Fabian Schmidt, Ranjani Srinivasan, or Rebecca Burke, the Trump administration is out of control with indiscriminate, and often illegal actions, in the name of so-called immigration enforcement. They have been disappearing people from their homes in the middle of the night, kidnapping people in the middle of the street, deporting individuals to prison camps, and flagrantly violating people’s human, civil, and due process rights.
“In one of the most jaw-dropping of these cases, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a father who fled gang violence and was granted legal protection in the United States, was mistakenly deported to a Salvadoran gulag. Now, the administration claims they have no legal recourse to remove him from the Cecot mega-prison, a facility that reportedly allows no visits from family, no letters from home, and only lets people out of their cells for 30 minutes a day.
“Even as the administration has admitted this terrible miscarriage of justice, Vice President Vance has continued to go on Twitter and spread false information about the deportation. It is simply outrageous that the administration refuses to require the release of an individual it mistakenly deported even as it pays El Salvador $6 million a year in taxpayer dollars to illegally imprison people in violation of people’s fundamental due process rights ...
https://jayapal.house.gov/2025/04/01/jayapal-statement-on-the-unlawful-abduction-and-deportation-of-kilmar-armando-abrego-garcia/
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