“I’m afraid of being arrested while walking in the street,“ the 41-year-old undocumented migrant said.
It was near here in March that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was arrested -- a Salvadoran migrant hustled off to a prison in his home country by the Trump administration despite a 2019 court order that was supposed to protect him from deportation.
The Trump administration claims that Abrego Garcia belonged to the Salvadoran gang MS-13, which it has dubbed a “foreign terrorist organization” -- and said he is guilty of domestic violence.
“We came here to work,“ she insisted, adding that “we don’t do any harm to anyone.”
The daughter of Salvadoran immigrants, she declined to give her family name.
“Just by looking at me, you can tell I’m Hispanic. I could be targeted just because of that,“ she said.
The Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return from a notorious Salvadoran prison.
The jailed man is the victim of an “injustice,“ Alberto Garcia said, adding, “They didn’t give him the right to defend himself.”
“The governments here and there (in El Salvador) have apparently discovered that he was part of a gang,“ said Saul Mercado with a shrug.
The billionaire president won the votes of more than four in 10 Latinos in the November election, gaining substantial support among the community since 2020.
During a White House visit Monday, Bukele ruled out any flexibility in Abrego Garcia's case, saying he was unable to send the man back.
Abrego Garcia’s case “creates conflict” for many Salvadorans in the United States, said Abel Nunez, director of Carecen, a local group that aids Latin American migrants.
“This case has more to do with the US as a whole, and not only with our community,“ he said. “Kilmar’s expulsion opens the door for anyone to be sent outside of the country -- and that includes citizens.”
Trump himself has floated the idea of sending US citizens to be jailed abroad, saying on Tuesday that he “would love” to send “homegrown criminals” to El Salvador’s prisons.
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