Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces an intended deportation to Uganda despite having no connection to that country and experts calling the move complex and legally questionable. A federal judge in Maryland temporarily blocked the deportation and set a hearing for Oct. 6. Abrego Garcia's lawyers said he intends to seek asylum in the U.S. based on fear of persecution. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem repeated allegations against him, which he denies; he has not been convicted or formally charged as a gang member. He returned from El Salvador, was indicted on human smuggling charges, detained, released, and re-arrested by ICE, and is currently held in Virginia.
The Trump administration says it intends to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia the man who was wrongfully sent to El Salvador in March before being returned to the U.S. to Uganda, a country with which he has no connection, in what experts describe as a costly, complex and legally questionable move. A federal judge in Maryland has set a next hearing for Oct. 6 and blocked his deportation before then.
In a statement on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem justified the administration's targeting of Abrego Garcia by repeating allegations against him. "President Trump is not going to allow this illegal alien, who is an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator, to terrorize American citizens any longer," Noem said. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, has denied the allegations. He has not been convicted of any crimes and has not been formally charged with being a gang member.
Abrego Garcia, who has a family in Maryland, returned to the U.S. in June, after spending several weeks in El Salvador's notorious Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo prison known as CECOT. He was then immediately detained, after being indicted on human smuggling charges in Tennessee. Last week, he was released from pretrial detention but then was re-arrested by ICE agents on Monday in Baltimore.
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