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In this two-minute investigative flashcast, we break down the extraordinary case of Kilmar García, a Salvadoran immigrant at the center of one of 2025’s most controversial deportation scandals. After being wrongfully removed from the U.S. despite a court order protecting him from deportation, García’s story spiraled into a legal and political storm reaching the Supreme Court. Upon his return from El Salvador, he was hit with federal smuggling charges, accusations his defense calls retaliation by Homeland Security. From bureaucratic blunder to courtroom showdown, this episode unpacks how one man’s fight for justice exposed deep cracks in America’s immigration system.