March 12
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is detained by ICE in College Park, Maryland, after agents stopped his car as he drove his young child
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Abrego Garcia is detained in Baltimore; Louisiana; and La Villa, Texas
March 15
Three days after he was detained, Abrego Garcia is deported to a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador on one of three Department of Justice deportation flights
April 1
20 days after he was detained, ICE says Abrego Garcia was deported because of “an oversight.” The Trump administration said U.S. courts don't have the power to order his return to the U.S.
April 4
23 days after he was detained, a federal judge ordered the government to secure Abrego Garcia’s return by the end of the day April 7.