The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia says that seeing the photo of him living is “very overwhelming”

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife, spoke exclusively about “Good Morning America” ​​from ABC on Friday morning in her first interview since Senator Chris Van Hollen met her husband in El Salvador on Thursday.

Van Hollen Thursday published a photo of himself on Thursday with Abrego Garcia, who was the first time that Vasquez Sura had seen him since the location in a photo among several other migrants brought in the mega-prison ceot d’El Salvador last month.

“It was very overwhelming,” said Vasquez Sura about the image Thursday evening.

“The most important thing for me, my children, his mother, his brother, his brother, was to see him alive, and we saw him alive,” she told Michael Strahan de Gma.

Abrego Garcia, originally from Salvadoran who lived with his wife and children in Maryland, was expelled in March at Cecot in El Salvador – despite an order from the 2019 court prohibiting his expulsion in this country because of the fear of persecution – after the Trump administration said he was a member of the MS -13 criminal gang.

The Trump administration, while recognizing that Garcia has been expelled to El Salvador by mistake, said his alleged affiliation MS-13 makes him ineligible to return to the United States.

After a federal judge ruled earlier this month that the Trump administration was to “facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia, and the United States Supreme Court said that the case, the case, has become a test of the power of the executive branch compared to the courts.

Vasquez Sura, addressing GMA, denied that her husband is a member of MS-13 or any other gang.

“I will not stop fighting until he goes home, until I know that he is safe,” Vasquez sura to Strahan said.

“It’s been 37 days since March 12, since my husband was kidnapped,” said Vasquez Sura. “It was an emotional and emotional mountain, honestly.”

“We have been together for seven years. It was incredible. He is a very loving husband and an incredible father. We were only young parents trying to live the American dream,” said Vasquez Sura, who is an American citizen, as well as the children of the couple.

“Our faith has grown up and I keep it in my prayers to bring it home,” she said.

Strahan questioned Vasquez sura about her file for a protection order against her husband in 2021, in which she cited a slap, struck with an object and be held against her will. The case was closed about a month later when she did not appear for a court hearing.

“You removed a temporary protection prescription against your husband in 2021. Was you afraid of your husband?” Strahan asked.

“My husband is alive,” replied Vasquez Sura. “That’s all I can say.”

Earlier this week, in a press release published in ABC News through his lawyer, Vasquez Sura said: “After surviving domestic violence in a previous relationship, I acted in caution after a disagreement with Kilmar by looking for a protective order in case the things were climbed. We were able to work in private this situation as a family, including by driving.”

Van Hollen, a Democratic Senator of the original state of Maryland of Vasquez Sura, flew to El Salvador on Wednesday to try to meet Abrego Garcia.

“I said that my main objective of this trip was to meet Kilmar. Tonight, I was lucky,” said Van Hollen in the social media position in which he shared the photo of him with Abrego Garcia. “I called his wife, Jennifer, to transmit her love message. I can’t wait to provide a full update on my return.”

Vasquez Sura was informed that the meeting between Van Hollen and Abrego Garcia was organized by the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, a source close to the family told ABC News.

The source said that Greo Garcia and Vasquez Sura were unable to speak.