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The spouse of the Maryland man who the US authorities mistakenly deported to El Salvador acknowledged that she had filed a civil protecting order in opposition to him 4 years in the past, however stated it was out of an abundance of warning and that the couple had labored by means of their points.
The assertion Wednesday from Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s spouse, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, got here after the Division of Homeland Safety posted on X a duplicate of a protecting order that Vasquez Sura requested in opposition to her husband in 2021.
CNN has additionally reviewed the petition for a protecting order offered by a Homeland Safety official describing a disagreement and bodily altercation that included hitting and “scratching” between Abrego Garcia and Vasquez Sura.
The Trump administration’s launch of the paperwork come as a part of its renewed push to painting Abrego Garcia, who has not been charged with or convicted of any crime, as a violent and harmful felony and a member of MS-13.
“Based mostly on the sensationalism of most of the individuals on this room, you’ll suppose we deported a candidate for Father of the Yr,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated Tuesday.
Abrego Garcia’s spouse and legal professionals have denied he’s a part of a gang.
In her assertion to CNN, Vasquez Sura stated she sought a civil protecting order in 2021 after a disagreement with Abrego Garcia. Vasquez Sura famous she had survived a earlier relationship that included home violence. She didn’t seem at a court docket listening to and the matter didn’t proceed.
“Issues didn’t escalate, and I made a decision to not comply with by means of with the civil court docket course of,” she stated within the assertion. “We have been capable of work by means of this case privately as a household, together with by going to counseling. Our marriage solely grew stronger within the years that adopted. Nobody is ideal, and no marriage is ideal.”
“That isn’t a justification for ICE’s motion of abducting him and deporting him to a rustic the place he was imagined to be protected against deportation,” she added. “Kilmar has at all times been a loving associate and father, and I’ll proceed to face by him and demand justice for him.”
In court docket hearings over the deportation of Abrego Garcia, the federal decide overseeing the case has repeatedly requested the Justice Division to supply extra details about him, together with any prices or convictions, however, to this point, none has been offered. The civil protecting order has not been filed within the case or been a difficulty in his mistaken deportation.
“The federal government made a alternative right here to provide no proof,” DOJ lawyer Erez Reuveni instructed the decide earlier this month. Reuveni was later fired.
Wednesday, Leavitt returned to the rostrum to publicize the Maryland protecting order in addition to assault Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen for traveling to El Salvador in an try to see Abrego Garcia.
“It’s appalling and unhappy that Sen. Van Hollen and the Democrats applauding his journey to El Salvador immediately are incapable of getting any shred of frequent sense or empathy for their very own constituents and our residents. No one is aware of this greater than the girl standing to my proper, Patty Morin, whose stunning daughter, Rachel, was brutally maimed and murdered by the hands of an unlawful alien in August of 2023,” Leavitt stated.
Rachel Morin was attacked and killed by a fugitive from El Salvador whereas mountaineering in 2023. Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 24, was convicted of Morin’s homicide and rape on Monday.
CNN’s Samantha Waldenberg and Package Maher contributed to this report.
This story has been up to date with extra developments.
