Her husband was mistakenly deported. Now she's caught in a political frenzy.

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Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Abrego García, cries last week as she talks about her husband's mistaken deportation to a notorious Salvadoran prison. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)


The wife of Kilmar Abrego García, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration, has been moved to a safe house by supporters after U.S. officials posted a court document on social media that included the family’s address.

Jennifer Vasquez Sura said in an interview with The Washington Post that she began fearing for her safety and that of their three children — two of whom are autistic — after verbal attacks on her husband by President Donald Trump himself, as well as taunts on social media by administration officials and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.

The couple’s home was usually filled by the sounds of a burgeoning family, including pans clattering while her husband cooked, the three kids tumbling through the day, the TV humming in the background. Now, she is on her own with the children — one nonverbal and another prone to seizures — and their new home is uncomfortably silent.

Vasquez Sura is also overwhelmed by the glaring spotlight of the legal battle over her husband’s case, which has become a lightning rod for the president’s broader effort to deport millions who have entered the United States illegally — regardless of whether, like Abrego Garcia, they later obtained protections barring deportation. She nevertheless has become her husband’s fiercest advocate.

“I didn’t even think it would become this big — it just happened,” Vasquez Sura said in an interview with The Post. “But if God threw me in this, I know he’s going to take me out of it. So this is God’s battle. And I’m going to fight it — for Kilmar and for everyone.”

[Dan]

1. Well, I am not going to question her belief system, but

I would whisper to her - that it is the good Christian people that voted for this so maybe she should be talking to members of her faith and church about what they really believe. As something I recently read said - the religious right advocate for the Unborn because they don’t demand or require anything whereas the poor, the homeless and unwell require something from them.

[Irish_Dem]

2. She has more courage than most American leaders.