The spouse of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador is on the heart of a authorized battle with the Trump administration, had a short lived order of safety towards him in 2021 by which she cited being slapped, hit with an object, and being detained towards her will, in keeping with courtroom paperwork obtained by ABC Information.
In a prolonged assertion inside a petition for cover “from home violence,” Jennifer Vasquez Sura talked about an incident on Could 4, 2021, by which she alleges that Abrego Garcia “punched and scratched her eye,” inflicting her to bleed.
That very same day, Vasquez Sura mentioned that when she instructed Abrego Garcia that she wanted to go to a retailer, he “received indignant, began yelling once more to the purpose that he ripped [her] shorts and shirt off.”
“And I ran to the lavatory, he [ran] behind me and grabbed me by my arm,” Vasquez Sura mentioned. “I’ve marks on my left arm as effectively.”
“At this level I’m afraid to be near him,” Vasquez Sura added. “I’ve a number of photographs/movies of how [violent] he could be.”
Vasquez Sura obtained a short lived protecting order towards Abrego Garcia in Could of 2021, in keeping with state courtroom data in Maryland. The order required that Abrego Garcia don’t have any contact with Vasquez Sura, and that he avoid their shared residence, the data present.
In an announcement launched to ABC Information Wednesday by her lawyer, Vasquez Sura — who has been vocal in her support of Abrego Garcia throughout his incarceration in El Salvador — mentioned, “After surviving home violence in a earlier relationship, I acted out of warning after a disagreement with Kilmar by searching for a protecting order in case issues escalated.”
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, spouse of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, speaks throughout a press convention on the day of a listening to within the case associated to Kilmar Abrego Garcia exterior U.S. District Court docket in Greenbelt, Maryland, April 15, 2025.
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“We had been in a position to work by this example privately as a household, together with by going to counseling,” Vasquez Sura mentioned. “Kilmar has all the time been a loving companion and father, and I’ll proceed to face by him and demand justice for him.”
Abrego Garcia, who the Trump administration alleges is a member of the legal gang MS-13, is getting into his second month in an El Salvador mega-prison after he was deported there on March 15 regardless of being issued a 2019 courtroom order barring his deportation to his house nation as a result of concern of persecution.
He had been residing in Maryland with Vasquez Sura , their 5-year-old youngster, and two step-children. Vasquez Sura has denied that he’s affiliated with MS-13.
Within the 2021 paperwork obtained by ABC Information, Vasquez Sura famous two previous incidents, alleging that in 2020, Abrego Garcia hit her together with his work boot and that in August 2020, he hit her within the eye.
The protecting order was dismissed a month after it was issued, on June 17, 2021, after Vasquez Sura failed to look in courtroom, in keeping with a signed order of dismissal by a decide.
ABC Information additionally obtained paperwork submitted to a Maryland courtroom in August 2018 by a person who claimed to be the daddy of two of Vasquez Sura’s youngsters. In a five-page movement for an emergency listening to, he mentioned he feared for the youngsters’s lives, partially, “as a result of she is courting a gang member and tried self-harm,” the data state.
The person didn’t embody the title of the person he alleged is a gang member. It’s not recognized if he was referring to Abrego Garcia.
The initials of his youngsters’s names, listed in a custody grievance, match those that Vasquez Sura listed for her youngsters in a declaration submitted in Abrego Garcia’s case.
He seems to have left some sections of the grievance unfinished, together with what custody phrases he was requesting. Nonetheless, within the submitting he mentioned he would permit Vasquez Sura to go to the youngsters on the situation that “we each agree on the time and date.”
In keeping with courtroom paperwork dated January 18, 2019, the case was dismissed as a result of Vasquez Sura wasn’t served.
Vasquez Sura’s attorneys didn’t reply to a request for touch upon paperwork involving her ex.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant on this handout picture obtained by Reuters on April 9, 2025.
Abrego Garcia Household through Reuters
On Tuesday, a federal decide ordered authorities officers to testify under oath as a result of, she mentioned, that they had “carried out nothing to help in Abrego Garcia’s launch from custody and return to america,” regardless of the Supreme Court docket directing the Trump administration to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s launch from custody in El Salvador.
The Division of Homeland Safety, in a social media put up Wednesday, shared a 2021 courtroom report from Abrego Garcia’s protecting order case and mentioned within the put up that he “was not the upstanding ‘Maryland Man’ the media has portrayed him as.”
