Annie Comes Home: Tell Congress: Help keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia home!

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Tell Congress: Help keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia home!

Pamela: In March, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly and illegally deported to an infamous mega-prison in El Salvador — the same country he fled as a teenager because of gang violence.

Then in June, after a unanimous Supreme Court ruling and tireless advocacy from movement partners, activists, and champions in Congress like Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Abrego Garcia was returned to the United States — only to once again have his freedom denied as the federal government spun up criminal charges against him.[1]

Just days ago, the father of three was finally reunited with his family after more than 160 days apart. Yesterday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took Abrego Garcia back into custody. This time, the Trump administration is threatening to deport him to Uganda.[2]

Activists like you helped bring Abrego Garcia home once, and activists like you will help keep him here. With his future — and our values — on the line once more, we know it'll take even MORE people putting pressure on Congress to speak out and demand justice, and Pamela, that starts right now.

Send a message to Congress: Demand justice for Kilmar Abrego Garcia and help keep him home!

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When it was revealed that an administrative error caused Abrego Garcia to be removed to El Salvador, the Trump administration had an opportunity to right their wrong. Instead, they stonewalled and left him to languish in CECOT, a notorious mega-prison where reports of horrific human rights abuses, including beatings, torture, denial of food and, in at least one case, sexual assault have emerged.

But Abrego Garcia's case is just one egregious example of Trump and Stephen Miller's campaign to destroy lives and dismantle constitutional protections. To date, 238 migrants have been deported to the same notorious El Salvador mega-prison as Abrego Garcia.[3]

Right now, ICE is detaining more than 60,000 people and every day the Trump administration expands its deportation machine to ship people further away from their families and the lives they've built in the United States — across Central America and South America to central and Southern Africa.

The Trump administration wants to make an example out of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and they're counting on dragging out their vindictive campaign until we either give up the fight or look away, Pamela. That's how they win. But we know the power we command when we relentlessly pressure Congress to speak out. It's already helped bring Abrego Garcia back home once before, and it can help keep him home as he faces another wrongful deportation.

A threat to one of us is a threat to all of us. Send lawmakers a message today urging them to speak out and demand justice for Kilmar Abrego Garcia as he faces the threat of deportation to Uganda. We will not look away.

What we are witnessing isn't merely an immigration scandal, it's a full-scale assault on our values. But no matter how hard he tries, Trump won't rewrite the Constitution, trample the courts, or abduct our community members without people like us protesting his actions at every step.

But each and every time we pressure our members of Congress, we're showing up for our values, reminding them we're paying attention, and holding them accountable. That's not all – with every petition signature, phone call, and protest, we're ALSO creating the political space our decision-makers need to be bolder and work harder at building the safer, more sustainable future we all want and deserve.

Thank you for working for peace,
The Win Without War team

1. NBC News, "Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been returned to the U.S. to face federal criminal charges"
2. NBC News, "Kilmar Abrego Garcia taken into ICE custody, but judge blocks deportation for now"
3. CBS News, "U.S. sent 238 migrants to Salvadoran mega-prison; documents indicate most have no apparent criminal records"