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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Andrew Roth Global affairs correspondent

HISTORICAL FACTS: The trump administration trapped a wrongly deported man in a catch 22 - Caught on Camera

a person holds a sign that reads 'unlawfully taken & disappeared bring Kilmar home to his family'
Jennifer Vásquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, attends a news conference about her husband in Washington DC on Wednesday. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images

It is difficult to find a term more fitting for the fate of the Maryland father Kilmar Ábrego García than Kafkaesque.

Ábrego García is one of hundreds of foreign-born men deported under the Trump administration to the Cecot mega-prison in El Salvador as part of a macabre partnership with the self-declared “world’s coolest dictator”, Nayib Bukele.

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