He was sued, along with Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, in the United States district court in West Palm Beach[2] in two precedent-setting legal actions: Guillermo García and General Vides Casanova had been undergoing a deportation process since 1999.

[5] The Department of Homeland Security later charged García in 2009 with participating or assisting in torture and extrajudicial killings during his tenure as Minister of Defense.

[5] His attorney Alina Cruz argued that he could not be deported on those grounds because he was already exonerated of those charges in the landmark case Ford vs. Garcia when a jury found that he was not in control of his troops.

[7] On 16 December 2015, it was announced that an immigration appeals court upheld the decision to deport Garcia.

[1] On 8 January 2016, American immigration officials deported General García back to El Salvador.