The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the alleged MS-13 gang member deported from the United States to El Salvador by the Trump administration, has said that she will “stand by” her husband and said that she had filed a domestic violence protection order against him in 2021 “out of caution.”
Jennifer Vasquez Sura told WUSA9, “Kilmar has always been a loving partner and father, and I will continue to stand by him and demand justice for him.”
Her comment came after the Department of Justice published the protection order sought by Sura in 2019, which stated that “respondent punched and scratched petitioner, ripped off shirt, grabbed and bruised petitioner.”
Sura acknowledged the filing against her husband, but told the outlet that she had survived a previous domestic violence relationship and decided to seek protection against Abrego Garcia “out of caution.”
“Things did not escalate, and I decided not to follow through with the civil court process,” she said. The case was dismissed after the petitioner, Sura, did not appear in court.