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Dominican protesters rally against a proposed set of laws on abortion, corruption and rights

SANTO DOMINGO (AP) — Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the Dominican Republic’s congressional building on Thursday to rally against proposed new laws that would uphold an abortion ban, allow discrimination…

John McCarthy July 10, 2025

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia says he was beaten and subjected to psychological torture in El Salvador jail

Kilmar Abrego Garcia said he suffered severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation and psychological torture in the notorious El Salvador prison the Trump administration had deported him to in March, according to…

John McCarthy July 3, 2025

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Abrego Garcia back in US to face charges of helping traffic ‘thousands’ of migrants

WASHINGTON (ABC) — Mistakenly deported Salvadoran native Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been brought back to the United States where he will face criminal charges for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S.…

John McCarthy June 6, 2025

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Toddler who was separated in the U.S. from her deported parents is back in Venezuela

CARACAS (Miami Herald) — A two-year-old Venezuelan girl who had been held in U.S. custody since late 2024 and remained in the U.S. after her parents were deported separately under…

John McCarthy May 14, 2025

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A man with an open asylum case was deported. His lawyers want to know if there are others

BALTIMORE (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia has become a household name as the Trump administration is engaged in an intense legal campaign to keep him locked up in an El Salvador prison…

John McCarthy May 8, 2025

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We’ve deported nursing mother to Cuba, child with cancer goes to Honduras. America, wake up

Somebody please explain to me why a mother of a nursing baby, whose husband is a U.S. citizen, was snatched from her family and sent back to Cuba. Or why…

John McCarthy May 2, 2025

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US Supreme Court temporarily blocks deportations of Venezuelan migrants under wartime law

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday temporarily barred the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelan migrants it accused of being gang members under a rarely…

John McCarthy April 19, 2025

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US senator returns from El Salvador trip, says Abrego Garcia case is about far more than one man

WASHINGTON (AP) — The dispute over the wrongful deportation and imprisonment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia “is not only about one man” but about Donald Trump’s disregard of the American judicial system as…

John McCarthy April 18, 2025

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Deported El Salvador migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia was embroiled in human smuggling scandal in 2022

WASHINGTON (Daily Mail) — El Salvador migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia was suspected of human trafficking in 2022, according to Department of Homeland Security records. The 29-year-old has been at the center of…

John McCarthy April 18, 2025

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US senator meets man mistakenly deported to El Salvador

SAN SALVADOR (BBC) — A U.S. senator has met a man who Trump administration officials have acknowledged was deported in error from Maryland to a mega-prison in El Salvador. Maryland…

John McCarthy April 18, 2025