Wife of wrongly-deported man moved to safe hour after DHS leaks address
The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran father wrongly deported from Maryland, has been moved to a safe house after the Department of Homeland Security shared a court document containing her home address on social media, prompting widespread backlash against the Trump administration.
Jennifer Vasquez Sura told The Washington Post she feared for her life and the safety of her three children after DHS posted a 2021 protective order featuring her address to its 2.4 million followers on X.
The document was released amid a viral debate over her husband's controversial deportation to El Salvador.
“I don’t feel safe when the government posts my address, the house where my family lives, for everyone to see,” Vasquez Sura said. “So, this is definitely a bit terrifying. I’m scared for my kids.”
The Department of Homeland Security responded to the allegations, claiming “these are public documents that anyone could get access to.”
Abrego Garcia is a MS-13 gang member, illegal alien from El Salvador, and suspected human trafficker. The facts reveal he was pulled over with eight individuals in a car traveling from Texas to Maryland with no luggage.
Whether he is in El Salvador or a detention facility in the… pic.twitter.com/VdX8GjLXIqAbrego Garcia was deported on 15 March despite a 2019 court order blocking his removal on humanitarian grounds. Advocacy groups and Democratic officials argue the deportation defied due process.
In response to judicial criticism, administration officials have attempted to justify the deportation by releasing unverified allegations, including ties to MS-13 and claims of domestic abuse.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller publicly labelled Abrego Garcia a “woman beater.”
Officials cited a 2021 protective order filed by Vasquez Sura after an incident in which Garcia struck her during an argument. The order was dissolved one month later.
Vasquez Sura acknowledged the incident, attributing it to financial stress and the emotional burden of raising children with special needs while her husband faced immigration detention.
She said it was an isolated occurrence and does not justify his deportation.
“Look, Kilmar is not perfect — nobody is,” she said. “Day by day, you grow. Every day, you learn. And he was trying his best for me, for our kids, for our future.”