On June 25, 2019, Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Jennifer Vasquez Sura married inside an immigration detention center while separated by a glass partition. An officer helped them exchange rings.
Vasquez Sura was nearing the end of a high-risk pregnancy while her soon-to-be husband faced the possibility of his removal from the United States to his native El Salvador. They thought the ceremony “might be our only chance to get married, even though it was far from how we ever imagined it,” she wrote in court documents. “It was heartbreaking not to be able to hug him.”
