Blog / 2025 / Portrait of Kilmar Agrego Garcia: An Injury to One Is an Injury to All
April 19, 2025
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“An injury to one is an injury to all” has been a popular union motto since at least the beginning of the 20th century, but it’s taken on a new poignancy under Trump’s dictatorship. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers Local 100, and the union has come out strongly in support of him.
For stickers and posters with Abrego Garcia’s portrait, visit my Redbubble shop. The text design with “an injury to one is an injury to all” is here.
You can see the making of the “NO KINGS” poster here. Prints of the rainbow-rific “the power of people is greater than the people in power” are here, and Trump’s exed out face is here.
Kilmar Agrego Garcia
2025
acrylic on archival board
20 x 16 inches
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Last month, the Trump administration agreed to pay the government of El Salvador six million dollars to jail and torture three hundred people for one year in its infamous Terrorism Confinement Center. According to investigative reporting by 60 Minutes, of the two hundred and some people Trump has sent to El Salvador so far, at least 179 have no criminal charges in the US or elsewhere.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is one of those 179. He came to the US in 2011 as a kid, sent here by his mother after the Barrio 18 gang tried to extort money from her and then threatened her children. Abrego Garcia didn’t apply for asylum at that time, but in 2019 an immigration judge granted him “withholding of removal” status. This prevents him from being deported back to El Salvador and allows him to work in the US. When ICE took Abrego Garcia into custody and sent him to El Salvador, it was acting illegally.
At this point, it appears that Abrego Garcia has been moved out of the Terrorism Confinement Center, but he along with the other two hundred and some American residents who are still there were all snatched up and thrown out of the US without due process. That means Trump’s government failed to follow the lawful procedures necessary to make their actions anything other than abduction. It means that Trump and his cronies have failed to present any evidence of the danger it’s now saying that these men pose. And for over a month now, Trump has repeatedly ignored court orders to return these men.
A leader who denies due process and refuses to acknowledge the authority of the courts is a dictator. The United States government is now very clearly a dictatorship.
I’m protesting today and I’m hoping you will too.
An Injury to One Is an Injury to All
2025
acrylic on archival board
20 x 16 inches
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