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Most Americans have continued to support President Trump's push for deportations, but there are some early signs of cracks in his Latino support.
By Jazmine Ulloa and Ruth Igielnik
Jazmine Ulloa interviewed Latinos at restaurants, churches and shopping plazas in Langley Park, Hyattsville, Beltsville and Landover Hills, Md.
June 12, 2025, 7:14 p.m. ET
Pastor Heber D. Paredes voted for President Trump and has photos of himself at the White House, his head bowed in prayer alongside former Vice President Mike Pence.
That was a different time, he said — before the second Trump administration began detaining immigrant honor students, before it deported Latino parents with American-born children, and before it plucked Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from the same county in suburban Maryland where Mr. Paredes ministers to a congregation full of immigrants.
A sheet metal worker who had been living in the United States for more than 10 years, Mr. Abrego Garcia wasn’t supposed to have been deported. But for weeks, the Trump administration repeatedly rebuffed a federal judge’s demands that he be returned to the country from El Salvador.
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Last week, the government finally did bring him back after filing charges that he had helped smuggle migrants. On Friday morning, Mr. Abrego Garcia, 29, is expected to appear in a federal courtroom in Nashville to be arraigned on the charges, which have kept him in jail since his return to the United States.
For many in Mr. Paredes’s congregation, Mr. Abrego Garcia and his fate have come to feel all too resonant, a local man grabbed by federal agents and spirited out of the country with no apparent due process.
