Alleged MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison, was previously accused of physically abusing his wife who has been fiercely advocating for his release.
Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, applied for a protective order against her husband in 2021, saying he punched, scratched, grabbed and bruised her, according to court documents.
The Department of Homeland Security shared Vasquez Sura’s allegations on X, saying they are evidence that Abrego Garcia “had a history of violence and was not the upstanding ‘Maryland Man’ the media has portrayed him as.”
“This MS-13 gang member is not a sympathetic figure,” DHS said.
Vasquez Sura told The Post Wednesday that when she asked for protection from Abrego Garcia in 2021 she was “acting out of caution after a disagreement with Kilmar … in case things escalated” after she survived domestic abuse “in a previous relationship.”
“Things did not escalate, and I decided not to follow through with the civil court process. We were able to work through this situation privately as a family, including by going to counseling,” she said.
“Our marriage only grew stronger in the years that followed. No one is perfect, and no marriage is perfect.”
The alleged gangbanger’s wife argued that Abrego Garcia’s alleged abuse “is not a justification for ICE’s action of abducting him and deporting him to a country where he was supposed to be protected from deportation,” adding that “Kilmar has always been a loving partner and father, and I will continue to stand by him and demand justice for him.”
Vasquez Sura spoke to a crowd of protestors outside a courthouse Tuesday, saying that her husband was a hard-working man trying to achieve the American dream for his family before he was “abducted and disappeared” by ICE agents in front of their 5-year-old child.
“I find myself pleading with the Trump administration and the Bukele administration to stop playing political games with the life of Kilmar,” said Vasquez Sura.
“Today is 34 days after this disappearance … I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive.”
Vasquez Sura spoke after a federal judge ruled against a push to hold federal officials in contempt for violating an order to return the alleged MS-13 gangbanger, who was deported despite an administrative error, to the US.
Still, US District Judge Paula Xinis warned government officials against further “gamesmanship” in the case.
Despite a “clerical error” in Abrego Garcia’s deportation, the White House has asserted that the Salvadoran citizen should stay in El Salvador.
The Trump administration loaded Abrego Garcia onto a deportation flight with 260 other reputed gang members under the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act.
The feds claim Abrego Garcia is a member of the violent MS-13 gang and that he was in the country illegally — despite never being charged with a crime.
His deportation went against a 2019 order blocking the feds’ ability to remove him to El Salvador on the grounds he was at risk of retaliation from rival gangs, like Barrio 18.
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