An alleged MS-13 gangbanger whom Democrats are fighting to bring back into the United States was previously accused of domestic abuse by his wife.
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of deported illegal migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, once sought a domestic violence restraining order against him in 2021, according to court documents released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The revelations come as Sura has publicly advocated for his return and a Maryland senator traveled to El Salvador in an effort to visit him in prison.
“Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a history of violence and was not the upstanding ‘Maryland Man’ the media has portrayed him as,” DHS stated Wednesday. “According to court filings, Garcia’s wife sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, claiming he punched, scratched, and ripped off her shirt, among other harm.”
“This MS-13 gang member is not a sympathetic figure,” DHS continued.
The District Court of Maryland for Prince George’s County ordered Abrego Garcia in 2021 to not abuse, threaten or try to contact Sura, according to the documents. The court also awarded Sura custody of their child until a final protective order hearing was held.
Sura explained to the court in detail the types of abuse Abrego Garcia allegedly subjected her to at the time, according to written domestic violence allegations obtained by Fox News. In a written statement, she accused her husband of scratching and punching her eye, leaving her bleeding after throwing her laptop on the ground. On another occasion, Sura said Abrego Garcia ripped her shorts and shirt off, among other allegations.
“I told him I wasn’t sleepy, he got angry, reached over and threw my laptop on the floor, and the baby started to cry because he was putting pressure on him, my immediate reaction was to push him off us, and then he punched, scratched me on my left eye, leaving me bleeding,” she wrote in a court document, according to Fox News.
The allegations could make it harder for Democrats and other advocates of Abrego Garcia to keep casting him as a sympathetic figure.
After unlawfully crossing into the U.S. in 2011, Abrego Garcia eventually settled in Maryland and met Sura. His issues with law enforcement began in 2019 when he was arrested by the Prince George’s County Police Department and credibly accused by an informant of having MS-13 gang member ties. He was later transferred into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody and ordered deported by an immigration judge.
Sura and Abrego Garcia chose to get married while he was in ICE detainment, according to court records.
Although ordered removed by immigration judge, Abrego Garcia was ultimately successful in obtaining a withholding of removal, which barred his deportation to El Salvador and allowed him to work in the U.S. The withholding of removal benefit allowed him to remain in the U.S. and obtain work privileges — until he was arrested by ICE agents on March 15 and transferred to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a mega-prison in El Salvador used to house the country’s heinous criminals and gang members.
While the White House has acknowledged that Abrego Garcia’s deportation was the result of an clerical error — the withholding of removal order prohibited his repatriation back to El Salvador — the administration has maintained that he is an unlawful migrant and MS-13 member who is not welcome back into the U.S. El Salvador President Bukele also confirmed that he would not be sending Abrego Garcia to the U.S.
Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who claims Abrego Garcia to be his “constituent,” travelled to El Salvador on Wednesday to fight for his release, but was denied access to CECOT.
Since her previous accusations of domestic abuse were made public, Sura has come forward to say she did not follow through with her claims and now says her relationship with him became better, according to the New York Post.
“Things did not escalate, and I decided not to follow through with the civil court process,” she said Wednesday to the Post. “We were able to work through this situation privately as a family, including by going to counseling.”
“Our marriage only grew stronger in the years that followed. No one is perfect, and no marriage is perfect,” she continued.
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