The Disappearance of Kilmar Abrego García

How one illegal deportation exposes the erosion of justice, the defiance of the courts, and the fragile state of American democracy

There is a moment in every nation's history when the curtain begins to fall, not with a bang but with a bureaucratic shrug. For the United States, that moment may have quietly arrived in the form of an illegal deportation, a defied court order, and a man lost to a foreign prison funded by American dollars.

Kilmar Abrego García was supposed to be safe. He…