Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, will renew his bid for asylum in the United States after being arrested in Baltimore following release from a Tennessee jail. Federal officials allege ties to the violent MS-13 gang, an accusation he denies. His lawyers contend he faces persecution and torture if deported to Uganda and seek to reopen his asylum case. A 2019 immigration judge denied asylum on technical grounds but barred removal to El Salvador; officials nevertheless deported him in March to a Salvadoran prison. A Supreme Court order returned him to the U.S., and a new evidentiary hearing is set for October 6.
Abrego Garcia was arrested in Baltimore on Monday after being released from a Tennessee jail. Federal officials insist he is linked to the violent MS-13 gang, an accusation he denies. His lawyers argued at a scheduled hearing on Wednesday that he faces persecution and torture if deported to Uganda, and that he has the right to reopen his asylum case.
If the motion is granted then it's been a sea change. We're literally in a different ocean, a source familiar with the case told CNN. The move comes as the administration pushes for his deportation and days after officials floated he may be deported to Uganda after he refused to accept a deal that would have sent him to Costa Rica.
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