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Judge denies Kilmar Ábrego García’s bid for asylum in the US

a husband and wife are surrounded by people
Kilmar Ábrego García and his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, enter an Ice field office in Baltimore, Maryland, on 25 August 2025. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

An immigration judge in Baltimore has denied Kilmar Ábrego García’s bid for asylum on Thursday, but he has 30 days to appeal.

Ábrego’s case has drawn national attention since the 30-year-old was wrongfully deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador in March. The Salvadorian national has an American wife and children and has lived in Maryland for years, but he originally immigrated to the US without proper documentation as a teenager.

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