On March 12, 2025, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was arrested and detained by ICE on his way on from work in Baltimore, then illegally deported in the following days to El Salvador’s supermax prison, CECOT. Previously in October 2019, Abrego Garcia was granted withholding of removal, preventing the US from deporting him back to El Salvador in fear of political violence. The Trump administration has since labeled the deportation as an “administrative error”, and subverted District Judge Xinis’ ruling (upheld by the Supreme Court) to “effectuate and facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return. 
These drawings act as a reactionary documentation and reflection of these events and its themes, including:

• The detainment in and conditions of CECOT (1)

• This case’s place and relation to a greater lineage of oppressor and oppressed, the “legality” of a human” in the US and Globally - the historical repetition of rows of shirtless people in chain… transatlantic slave trade, forced displacement of indigenous people; Auschwitz was not in Germany (2)

• Abrego Garcia’s meeting with maryland senator Van Hollen, and it’s unsettling facade of normalcy(3)

• The authoritarian figures responsible, their deflection of blame, executive overreach, and infringement on the constitutional(human) right of due process(4)

• A father and his son(5, digitally blurred)