The Trump administration is openly defying the law, John.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a Maryland father and a legal U.S. resident. Last month, ICE agents tore him away from his 5-year-old son in an IKEA parking lot. No warrant. No trial. Just a calculated, cold-blooded abduction of an immigrant father picking up furniture.1
Then, Trump’s agents illegally deported him to El Salvador, where he’s now locked inside one of the world’s most brutal maximum-security facilities.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously — 9 to 0 — that the Trump administration must return Kilmar to the U.S.2
And now? Trump is defying the highest court of the land. Spitting on the constitution. And daring the rest of us to stop him.
This isn’t just a tragedy, John. It’s a five-alarm constitutional crisis. If Trump can rip families apart, break the law, and ignore the Supreme Court without consequences, then the rule of law is dead — and none of us are safe.
Congress must act — now. Add your name to demand they do everything in their power to bring Kilmar home immediately and hold Trump accountable for this lawless, authoritarian abuse of power.
Kilmar’s case is horrifying, but not isolated.
Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident and Columbia graduate student, was also arrested by federal agents in his Manhattan apartment last month. His “crime”? Attending peaceful protests against the war in Gaza. His student visa was abruptly revoked, and he’s now being detained — without charges.3
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts student, was detained by ICE and sent to a prison 1,000 miles away — despite a court order that she remain in Massachusetts. Her deportation is now underway. Why? Because she wrote an op-ed critical of Israel’s war in Gaza. The State Department found no ties to a crime. Just another dissenting voice the Trump administration wanted silenced.4
This isn’t law enforcement. It’s political punishment.
And now, Trump is saying the quiet part out loud. Yesterday morning, live on camera, he said he wanted to send “homegrowns” — U.S. citizens — to foreign prisons.5
If Congress lets this slide — if they don’t step in immediately to do all they can to bring Kilmar home and hold Trump accountable — then we could be entering a new era of unchecked, authoritarian power.
Add your name now. And demand Congress act — before this moment becomes the new normal.
In solidarity,
Working Families Party
Sources:
1. Who is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man ICE mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison?, AP News, April 14, 2025.
2. Supreme Court rules Trump officials must 'facilitate' release of man deported to El Salvador, BBC News, April 9, 2025.
3. Who is Mahmoud Khalil? Palestinian activist detained by ICE over Columbia University protests, CNN, March 11, 2025.
4. No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found, The Washington Post, April 13, 2025.
5. 'Homegrowns are next': Trump doubles down on sending American 'criminals' to foreign prisons, ABC News, April 14, 2025.
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