Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March and was returned to the United States in June under a court order. Federal authorities detained him on human-smuggling charges after his return. Immigration officials later offered him deportation to Costa Rica in exchange for staying in jail and pleading guilty; he declined and pleaded not guilty, asking a judge to dismiss the case as punitive for contesting his earlier deportation. After his release from a Tennessee jail to await trial in Maryland, the Department of Homeland Security notified his lawyers of intentions to deport him to Uganda. Counsel received assurances from Costa Rica that it would accept him, yet ICE ordered him to report to Baltimore field authorities.
Immigration officials in the United States say they intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, according to a court filing, in what the man's legal team describes as an act of vindictiveness by US President Donald Trump's administration. The court filing on Saturday said the idea of sending Abrego Garcia to Uganda came after he declined an offer to be deported to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to human smuggling charges.
He has pleaded not guilty and asked the judge to dismiss the case, claiming that it is an attempt to punish him for challenging his deportation from the US to El Salvador earlier this year. Abrego Garcia's case has become a flashpoint in Trump's hardline, anti-immigration agenda after the Salvadoran national was mistakenly deported in March. Facing a court order, the Trump administration brought him back to the US in June, only to detain him on human smuggling charges.
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