Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran who has lived in Maryland with a US wife and children, faces a second deportation effort by the Trump administration after an earlier mistaken removal. He rejected a plea to go to Costa Rica and is slated for appearance at an immigration facility in Baltimore. The White House labeled him an MS-13 member and people smuggler, while a 2019 court protection cited "well-founded fears" of violence if he returned home. The US Supreme Court ordered the government to facilitate his return after admitting the earlier mistake. He was detained on smuggling charges, then released by a judge and reunited with family after more than 160 days.
The US government under President Donald Trump is planning a second deportation for a Salvadoran man who was illegally deported and then sent back to the United States during a fierce row over the White House's hardline immigration policies. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was released from a Tennessee jail on Friday, is now facing deportation to the East African country of Uganda, according to court documents shared by his lawyers on Saturday. Abrego Garcia turned
Abrego Garcia has a US wife and children and has lived in Maryland for years. However, he immigrated to the United States illegally. The White House depicted him as a member of the violent MS-13 gang and a people smuggler, justifying his deportation to a notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador. However, Abrego Garcia was under a court protection, issued in 2019, saying that he faced "well-founded fears" of violence if he was returned to his home country.
The US Supreme Court ordered the US government to "facilitate" his return after the Trump administration admitted it had sent him there by mistake. He was returned in June, and then detained and charged with smuggling undocumented migrants. On Friday, he was released from the Putnam County Jail in Cookville, Tennessee, on the basis of a judge's order. Abrego Garcia sees family again for first time in over 160 days
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