How many days elapsed between Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wrongful March 12, 2025, deportation to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center and his August 23, 2025, reunion with his family?

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On March 12, 2025, ICE mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia—a Beltsville, Maryland, sheet metal apprentice under a 2019 withholding of removal order— to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a maximum-security prison for alleged gang members and “terrorists” ()(). During his 160-day separation, his attorneys documented severe beatings, forced kneeling, sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition and psychological torture at CECOT (, ). He was reunited with his U.S. citizen wife and three children on August 23, 2025, when he returned after “more than 160 days” apart ().

How many days elapsed between Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wrongful March 12, 2025, deportation to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center and his August 23, 2025, reunion with his family?

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