For months and months, the full weight of the White House’s propaganda and legal operation has been brutally bearing down on the family of one day laborer from Maryland. Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been shipped off to a megaprison in El Salvador, falsely depicted as a violent gang member, smeared by federal government agencies, and—now that he’s back in the United States—is being criminally prosecuted. He has faced perhaps the most crazed vendetta ever waged by a president of the United States against a single individual.

That has thrust Jennifer Vasquez Sura, a young mother of three who is Abrego Garcia’s wife, into her own unique role: Amid Donald Trump’s lawless, cruel, arbitrary, and increasingly violent immigration crackdown, Vasquez has emerged as the public face of perseverance.

For months throughout this saga, Abrego Garcia himself has been out of sight, allegedly getting tortured in a foreign maximum-security prison. It was only when Senator Chris Van Hollen showed up outside its gates in April that we glimpsed him ever so fleetingly. When the Trump administration finally relented and agreed to bring him home—only to

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