Wife of Kilmar Ábrego García speaks as White House defiant over US return

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the man the Trump administration has admitted it mistakenly deported, expressed relief to learn he is alive after a Democratic US senator managed to meet with him in El Salvador – as the White House posted on social media that Ábrego García is “never coming back” to the US.“It was very overwhelming – the most important thing for me, my children, his mom, brothers was to see him alive, and we saw him alive,” Vasquez Sura told ABC in an interview.The Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen revealed on Thursday evening that he had met with Ábrego García at the maximum-security prison in El Salvador known as Cecot, where the autocratic regime holds prisoners without due process. On Friday, after returning to Washington, Van Hollen said Ábrego García told the senator that he had been moved from Cecot – where he was sharing a cell with 25 other prisoners – to a detention center with better conditions.Van Hollen said he traveled to El Salvado...