SKY Top News｜基尔马尔·阿布雷戈·加西亚：一名被错误驱逐的男子，现已成为特朗普政府大规模驱逐行动中的焦点人物

尽管没有任何刑事定罪记录，他仍被贴上恐怖分子和黑帮成员的标签，并遭驱逐至萨尔瓦多。但其律师指出，这些指控仅依据他的衣着和一名匿名线人的说辞。

基尔马尔·阿布雷戈·加西亚（Kilmar Abrego Garcia）因"行政失误"被美国错误驱逐的案例，已成为特朗普政府强硬反移民行动中的焦点事件。

尽管被贴上恐怖分子和帮派成员的标签（这些指控遭到他本人及律师的否认），他仍于今年早些时候被暂时遣返至萨尔瓦多，如今又面临另一项驱逐令。

该案件体现了唐纳德·特朗普强硬的移民政策立场。他已签署行政命令，终止出生公民权，并宣布美墨边境进入国家紧急状态。

大规模驱逐出境、移民突袭和逮捕行动有所增加，引发了抗议活动。但官员们表示，加西亚案表明了政府的决心。

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特朗普为何自称帮派成员

法庭文件显示，加西亚于2012年从萨尔瓦多非法入境美国，时年16岁——双方对此均无异议。

加西亚声称，巴里奥18街头黑帮曾恐吓其家人，因此他前往马里兰州投奔身为美国公民的兄弟。他在当地找到建筑工作，并于2016年与美国公民珍妮弗·瓦斯奎兹·苏拉结婚。两人育有一子，女方与前夫另有两个孩子。

三年后，他与另外三名男子在马里兰州家得宝（Home Depot）停车场被捕。警方称他们当时正在"闲逛"。

加西亚当时头戴芝加哥公牛队棒球帽、身穿连帽衫，一名匿名线人指认了他。警方称这身装扮"表明他是MS-13帮派的核心成员"，而线人则证实他隶属于该帮派的"西部派系"。

在其被捕后，白宫表示其手上的纹身与MS-13团伙的特征相符。

MS-13是一个臭名昭著的国际犯罪团伙，它成立于洛杉矶，但根源可追溯至萨尔瓦多。

加西亚如何反驳这些指控

加西亚的律师坚决否认了其与帮派有关联的指控。

在法庭文件中，他们辩称所谓"证据"仅包括其穿着打扮，以及匿名线人未经证实的指控。

他们声称，"西部帮派"的活动基地在纽约——而加西亚（Garcia）从未在此居住。但2019年一名法官裁定，线人提供的信息足以证明其帮派成员身份——这一判决后来得到了另一名法官的支持。

因此，加西亚在申请庇护期间被拘留。他获得了"暂缓遣返"令，该法令禁止政府将其遣返回萨尔瓦多。这一裁决是基于他对MS-13的主要敌对帮派Barrio-18的迫害存在"充分理由"的恐惧而作出的。

加西亚的律师表示，此后的四年间，他每年都按时参加美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）的报到登记，"从未缺席且无任何违规记录"。

更多指控

2021年，加西亚的妻子珍妮弗·巴斯克斯·苏拉申请了保护令，指控加西亚曾对她实施人身攻击。这一事件的细节在加西亚于2025年被驱逐出境后曝光。

美国国土安全部在线上公布了事件细节，并表示：“这名MS-13黑帮成员并非值得同情的人物。”

但苏拉在一份声明中表示，她和丈夫"能够以家庭方式私下解决这一情况，包括接受心理咨询"。她否认丈夫是MS-13团伙成员。

加西亚（Garcia）还因2022年的一次交通拦截被指控涉嫌人口贩卖。当时他因超速在田纳西州被拦下，美国国土安全部的报告称，车上另外八名未携带行李的人员引发了人口贩卖嫌疑。

但他的妻子表示，他从事建筑行业工作，偶尔会在工地之间运送工人。

加西亚为何被捕？

2025年3月12日，加西亚在驾车载其残疾儿子（美国公民）时被美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）官员拦停。

他被警方拘留，三天后致电妻子告知自己将被驱逐至萨尔瓦多，随后被关押在该国最高安全级别的恐怖主义关押中心（CECOT）。而此前2019年的保护令明确禁止将他驱逐出境。

特朗普政府随后承认将其撤职属于"行政错误"，但表示由于对萨尔瓦多没有管辖权，无法使其复职。

重返美国——再遭拘留

加西亚于6月被遣返美国后，特朗普政府随即以5月提起的刑事指控将其拘留。

刑事起诉书指控加西亚（Garcia）与至少五名同谋合作，将移民非法带入美国，并将其从边境运送至该国其他目的地。

8月22日周五获释后仅数分钟，官员便通知加西亚（Garcia）拟将其遣返至乌干达。

根据其律师提交的法庭文件，移民官员向加西亚提出一项协议：若他对指控认罪，可被遣返至哥斯达黎加。

他在巴尔的摩与美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）进行例行报到时被拘留。

周一，他在美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）办公室外表示：“这届政府让我们深受打击。”但他补充道：“上帝与我们同在，永远不会抛弃我们。上帝会为我们遭受的所有不公带来正义。”

他将被拘留至周三听证会。

He was labelled a terrorist and alleged gang member, despite having no criminal convictions, and deported to El Salvador. But his lawyers argue the claims were made based on his clothing and an unnamed informant.

The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was accidentally deported from the US because of an "administrative error", has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration's aggressive anti-immigration efforts.

Labelled a terrorist and alleged gang member, claims denied by him and his lawyers, he was temporarily removed to El Salvador earlier this year and now faces yet another deportation order .

The case symbolises Donald Trump's hardline immigration agenda. He has signed executive orders ending birthright citizenship and declaring a national emergency at the southern border.

Mass deportations, immigration raids and arrests have increased, sparking protests. But officials have said Garcia's case shows the administration's resolve.

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Why Trump says he is a gang member

Court documents show Garcia entered the US illegally from El Salvador in 2012, when he was 16 - neither side disputes this.

Garcia claims the Barrio 18 street gang terrorised his family, so he travelled to Maryland, where his brother (a US citizen) lives. He found work in construction and in 2016 he married Jennifer Vasquez Sura, also a US citizen. They have one child together and another two from her previous relationship.

Three years later, he was arrested alongside three other men in the car park of a Home Depot in Maryland. Police said they were "loitering".

Garcia was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat, a hoodie, and an unnamed informant identified him. The clothing, police said, "represents that [he is] a member in good standing with MS-13", while the informant confirmed his membership of the gang with the "westerns clique".

After his arrest, the White House said the tattoos on his hands are consistent with MS-13 associations.

MS-13 is a notorious international criminal gang that was formed in LA, but has roots in El Salvador.

How Garcia disputes these claims

Lawyers for Garcia have strongly refuted the claims of gang associations.

In court filings, they argued the "evidence" amounted to nothing more than his outfit as well as uncorroborated allegation from the unnamed informant.

The "western clique" operates out of New York, they said - a place Garcia has never lived. But in 2019, a judge ruled the information from the source was enough to prove his gang membership - this was later upheld by another judge.

So Garcia was held in custody while he applied for asylum. He was granted a "withholding of removal" order, which prevented the government from deporting him back to El Salvador. This was granted on the basis of a "well-founded" fear of persecution by Barrio-18, the main rival gang of MS-13.

For the next four years, Garcia attended his annual ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) reporting check-ins "without fail and without incident", his lawyers say.

Further allegations

In 2021, Garcia's wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, filed a protective order, alleging Garcia had physically attacked her, the details of which came to light after his deportation in 2025.

The Department of Homeland Security shared details of the incident online, saying: "This MS-13 gang member is not a sympathetic figure."

But Sura said in a statement she and her husband "were able to work through this situation privately as a family, including by going to counselling". She denied her husband was a member of MS-13.

Garcia was also accused of human trafficking following a traffic stop in 2022. He was stopped in Tennessee for speeding, with a report by the Department of Homeland Security saying the eight other people in the car without luggage raised suspicions of human trafficking.

But his wife said he worked in construction and sometimes transported workers between job sites.

Why was Garcia arrested?

On 12 March 2025, Garcia was pulled over by ICE officers while driving his disabled son, a US citizen.

He was taken into custody and three days later called his wife to say he was being deported to El Salvador, where he was imprisoned in the country's maximum security Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). This was despite that aforementioned 2019 order protecting him from deportation.

The Trump administration later admitted it had been an "administrative error" to remove him, but said they could not bring him back as they do not have jurisdiction over El Salvador.

Return to the US - and detained again

After he was eventually returned to the US in June, the Trump administration detained Garcia on criminal charges that were filed in May.

The criminal indictment alleges Garcia worked with at least five co-conspirators to bring immigrants to the US illegally and transport them from the border to other destinations in the country.

Minutes after his release on Friday, 22 August, officials notified Garcia they intended to deport him to Uganda.

According to a court filing by his lawyers, immigration officials made an offer to Garcia to be deported to Costa Rica in exchange for pleading guilty to the charges.

He was detained during a scheduled check-in with ICE in Baltimore.

"This administration has hit us hard," he said outside the ICE office on Monday, but added: "God is with us, and God will never leave us. God will bring justice to all the injustice we are suffering."

He will remain detained until a hearing on Wednesday.