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Photos: Local vigil for Kilmar Abrego Garcia
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Photos: Local vigil for Kilmar Abrego Garcia

  • Kelly Presnell
  • Apr 18, 2025
  • Apr 18, 2025 Updated May 2, 2025

A few hundred turned out for a vigil outside the El Salvador Consulate calling attention to the plight of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, April 16, 2025, Tucson, Ariz. Abrego Garcia is being held in an El Salvador prison, after being shipped there by the U.S. under Trump's deportation policies.

Abrego Garcia vigil

Carol Markstrom holds up her sign, among the couple hundred out for a vigil for Kilmar Abrego Garcia ousidet the El Salvadorian Consulate, 5447 E. 5th St., Tucson, Ariz., April 16, 2025.

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Abrego Garcia vigil

A protester holds her sign while getting ready with the couple hundred preparing a vigil for Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the El Salvadorian Consulate, 5447 E. 5th St., Tucson, Ariz., April 16, 2025.

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Abrego Garcia vigil

A woman holds up a sign for passing motorists as hundreds line up at a vigil for Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the El Salvadorian Consulate, 5447 E. 5th St., Tucson, Ariz., April 16, 2025.

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Abrego Garcia vigil

A couple hundred protestors wave signs at passing traffic during a vigil for Kilmar Abrego Garcia outside the El Salvadorian Consulate, 5447 E. 5th St., Tucson, Ariz., April 16, 2025.

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Abrego Garcia vigil

The crowd of a few hundred wave their signs to passing vehicles at a vigil for Kilmar Abrego Garcia outside the El Salvadorian Consulate, 5447 E. 5th St., Tucson, Ariz., April 16, 2025.

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Abrego Garcia vigil

Jim Stevenson takes up a position on the eastern edge of of a couple hundred protestors lining 5th Street outside the El Salvadorian Consulate at a vigil for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Tucson, Ariz., April 16, 2025.

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Abrego Garcia vigil

Kelley Dick calls out some of the names of those shipped from the U.S. to an El Salvadorian prison as part of the vigil for Kilmar Abrego Garcia outside the El Salvadorian Consulate, 5447 E. 5th St., Tucson, Ariz., April 16, 2025.

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Abrego Garcia vigil

A few of the couple hundred line 5th Street outside the El Salvadorian Consulate while standing vigil for Kilmar Abrego Garcia., Tucson, Ariz., April 16, 2025.

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Abrego Garcia vigil

Nancy Bennett, left, and Mark Sanders hold their signage up to passing drivers as a few couple hundred hold a vigil for Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the El Salvadorian Consulate, 5447 E. 5th St., Tucson, Ariz., April 16, 2025.

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