We interrupt the ongoing story of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father mistakenly deported to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists, to introduce Jose Hermosillo, the New Mexico father held for nine days in an Arizona ICE prison.

This, despite the fact that he’s an American citizen.

There’s a lot that isn’t yet known about how Hermosillo came to be cooling his heels in a private Florence prison leased to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain immigrants who are here illegally. But from the sound of it, he’s lucky he didn’t wake up rubbing elbows with terrorists in El Salvador.

Hermosillo, 19, who lives in Albuquerque with his girlfriend and baby, was in Tucson visiting friends when he was arrested by the Border Patrol “at or near Nogales" on April 8.

According to the criminal complaint, Hermosillo “admitted to illegally entering the United States of America from Mexico on or about April 7, 2025.”

But during an initial appearance on April 10, Hermosillo

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