Deported, Disappeared, Tortured: The Ordeal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Court records reveal how U.S. officials defied the Supreme Court and secretly sent a Maryland father to one of the world’s most notorious prisons — where he was beaten, starved, and denied due process

When Kilmar Abrego Garcia was pulled over by ICE agents in Maryland this past March, he was driving home from work with his 5-year-old son, A.A.V., buckled into the back seat. His son, a U.S. citizen with severe disabilities and autism, could barely communicate what was happening — but he didn’t need to. In minutes, his father was taken away in handcuffs. ICE officers told Abrego Garcia’s wife they’d call Child Protective Services if she didn’t come immediately.

It would be the last time his family saw him for nearly three months.

What followed is a constitutional horror story — one that reads like fiction, but is documented in federal court filings and now sits before the U.S. District Court in Maryland, backed by a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that the government has brazenly refused to follow.

Court records available at the end.