Kilmar Abrego Garcia bragged he could kill his wife and get away with it: court docs
Alleged MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia once boasted he could kill his wife and 'no one could do anything to him,' according to a request for a motion for a protective order she filed in 2020.
'I also have a [recording] that [he] told my ex-mother-in-law that even if he kills me no one can do anything to him,' Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wrote in the document she filed with the District Court of Maryland for Prince George's County on Aug. 3, 2020.
The newly surfaced document preceded a 2021 protective order request she filed against her husband. In that document she alleged he had punched, scratched and grabbed her — with some of the alleged abuse so severe, she was left with bruises and bleeding.
7 Kilmar Abrego Garcia bragged that he could could kill his wife and 'no one could do anything to him,' according to her request for a protective order against him.
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7 Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, has stood by her deported husband and advocated for his return to the US despite filing two protective orders against him for domestic violence in 2020 and 2021.
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The 2020 request for a protective order details a fight the couple allegedly had, with Sura alleging that Abrego Garcia took her phone and demanded her car keys before flying into a rage when she refused. She said she went upstairs to cook breakfast for the kids but Abrego Garcia shut off the stove before locking the children in their bedroom, according to the document.
Sura claimed she retrieved her phone from the car and called 911, but that Abrego Garcia had locked her out of the house when she tried to go back inside. He eventually let her into the house, and when officers arrived she said he smashed her phone in front of them, the protective order request says.
She wrote in the document that incidents like this had been commonplace, and that she had photos of bruises he had left on her body.
'Me and my kids are afraid now. He kicked me, pushed me, slapped me in the face and threatened me,' she alleged in the filing.
7 Abrego Garcia was temporarily placed in the hellish Salvadorian megaprison CECOT before being moved to a lower-security facility earlier this month.
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7 Abrego Garcia and Sura with their children.
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An attorney representing Abrego Garcia's family didn't immediately respond to The Post's request for comment.
The court filing goes on to enumerate several other allegations of violence and physical abuse. In November 2019, she wrote, Abrego Garcia 'grabbed me by the hair in the car,' and he allegedly did so again the next month, dragging her 'out of the car and leaving me in the street.'
Sura also write in the document about a January 2020 incident in which Abrego Garcia allegedly broke her son's tablet computer and broke doors in the couple's home. She wrote in March 2020 that he 'pushed me against a wall' and broke a phone, a TV and damaged the walls.
Despite the laundry list of disturbing allegations spanning both requests for protective orders, Sura has stood by Abrego Garcia and advocated for his return to the US after being deported by the Trump administration in March.
7 Sura at a press conference on her husband's deportation in Washington, DC on April 9, 2025.
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Eight days after she filed the 2020 request for a protective order, Sura filed a document with the court seeking to rescind it, on the grounds her son's birthday was coming up and Abrego Garcia had agreed to enter counseling.
Abrego Garcia was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last month and deported to his native El Salvador along with 260 other suspected gang members — despite an immigration judge granting him protection from deportation. Garcia has denied wrongdoing, and his lawyer has argued that he is not associated with gang activity.
He was temporarily placed in the hellish Salvadorian megaprison CECOT before being moved to a lower-security facility earlier this month.
7 Sen. Chris Van Hollen meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador on April 17, 2025.
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7 President Trump holding a photo of Abrego Garcia's tattoos on his knuckles.
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A Justice Department lawyer, Erez Reuveni, who has since been fired by AG Pam Bondi's office, admitted his deportation was due to an 'administrative error.'
In spite of the admission, the Trump administration has vehemently stuck to its guns, saying Abrego Garcia, who entered the US illegally, had no right to be in the US.
Abrego Garcia was accused of being a gang member in both a Maryland police report and in 2018 court papers.
A Maryland federal judge has ordered the administration to 'take all available steps to facilitate' Abrego Garcia's return to the US, a ruling upheld by an appeals court and later the US Supreme Court in a unanimous decision.
But the Trump administration has contended that it 'cannot guarantee success in sensitive international negotiations' over Abrego Garcia's release from foreign custody.
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