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FASCISM IN THE UNITED STATES
Will You Be the Next To Disappear?
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s only crime was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat
Imagine picking up your five-year-old son from school and coming home from a hard day’s work as a sheet metal worker.
When you pull up to the driveway, armed men in a dark Suburban SUV with tinted windows jump out of their vehicle and roughly push you toward your front door, demanding you hand your kid to your wife.
Then, they lock you in chest and ankle chains and transport you to an El Salvadoran concentration camp.
That’s what happened recently to Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
Kilmar had finally begun to settle into a routine of sorts as he tasted a few early offerings of American life that immigrants still pursue even during these tragic times. He had negotiated his way through numerous barriers and had landed a job as a sheet metal worker after starting as a day laborer hitching gigs at Home Depot.
He’s now in a 40,000 inmate concentration camp known as CECOT in El Salvador.
