The President Donald Trump administration has detained Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an already wrongfully deported Maryland man, and he is currently facing another potential and immediate deportation, this time to Uganda.
A blanket court order automatically halts the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Abrego Garcia and other immigrants who are contesting their detention despite his new detention on Monday.
The order, which extends the immigrant’s right to be removed from the US until 16:00 (20:00 GMT), on the second business day after their habeas corpus petition is filed, covers any immigrant seeking review of their detention in a Maryland federal court. The administration filed a lawsuit against the standard order in June against all 15 federal judges in Maryland.
In what the man’s legal team describes as a “vindictiveness” by Trump’s administration, immigration officials in the US say they intend to deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda, according to a court filing on Saturday.
The east African nation where US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) intends to deport him recently reached a deal to accept some deportees from the US.
According to the court filing, Abrego Garcia was given the idea after he declined to accept a deportation to Costa Rica while he stayed in jail and pleaded guilty to human smuggling charges.
Abrego Garcia, a 30-year-old Salvadoran national and construction worker, turned himself in at a rally before saying, “God is with us, and God will never leave us,” he said in a translator-speaking manner. God will bring justice to the injustices that we are experiencing.
On Monday, Abrego Garcia entered ICE’s offices in a downtown building. His wife, who was tears in her eyes when she emerged without him a short while later, was also present.
Abrego Garcia was being deported, according to Kristi Noem, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, in a post on X.
Shortly after his arrest, Abrego Garcia’s attorney, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, claimed a lawsuit was being filed in a Maryland federal district court asking for an order to prevent his deportation. He said, “I anticipate there will be a status conference very soon, and we will request an interim order that he not be deported, pending his due process rights to contest deportation to any particular country.”
Trump’s hardline immigration policies are portrayed in the public eye.
Abrego Garcia, who has an American wife and two children, has resided in Maryland for years under a protected legal status until 2019, when a judge ordered him to avoid deportation because he could suffer harm in his home country.
As part of Trump’s crackdown on refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers in the US, he then rose to the top of the list of cases involving more than 200 people who were sent to the notorious CECOT megaprison in El Salvador. His case continues to be a significant turning point for the Trump administration’s anti-immigration crackdown.
Lawyers for the Department of Justice acknowledged that an “administrative error” had led to the Salvadoran citizen’s deportation in error.
According to his attorneys, Abrego Garcia was brutally beaten and subjected to psychological torture in the El Salvadoran prison.
In court documents that were filed in Abrego Garcia’s civil lawsuit against the Trump administration in June, which provided a detailed account of his experiences following his first deportation, the alleged abuse was detailed.
Abrego Garcia, who denies any wrongdoing, is accused of being a part of the smuggling of undocumented refugees and migrants into the US between 2016 and early this year. He is also accused of being involved in this.
In January 2027, his human smuggling trial is scheduled to start.
The Trump administration has claimed that Abrego Garcia is a threat to the neighborhood and an MS-13 gang member, and that it is trying to deport him months before his trial is scheduled in Tennessee.
He has denied the gang charge, entered a not-guilty plea to smuggling charges, and requested that the case be dismissed due to vindictive prosecution.
Friday afternoon, Abrego Garcia was released from a Tennessee jail. He went back to his Maryland family.
According to a statement from a spokesman for the Justice Department, Chad Gilmartin outlined how Abrego Garcia presents a “clear danger” and that he has the option of facing a trial.
Source: Aljazeera
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