The Trump administration is planning once again to deport Salvadoran immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia — this time, to Africa.

According to a new memo submitted by the Justice Department to Abrego Garcia's counsel, "Pursuant to the court order issued in the District Court of Maryland on July 23, 2025, Civil Action No. 8:25-cv-00951-PX, please let this email serve as notice that DHS may remove your client, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, to Uganda no earlier than 72 hours from now (absent weekends)."

This comes just hours after Abrego Garcia was released from custody in Tennessee.

It's the latest in a series of efforts the Trump administration has made to carry out mass deportations to foreign countries the detainees have no relation to. Controversy erupted earlier this year when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials reportedly threw Asian immigrants in solitary confinement unless they agreed to be deported to Libya, a country facing ongoing instability.

Abrego Garcia, who has a family in Maryland, became a huge rallying cry for critics of the Trump administration's deportation policies after he was deported, with next to no due process, to the infamous CECOT megaprison in El Salvador, despite a standing order from a federal judge barring him from being deported to that country.

Over months of legal wrangling, the Trump administration claimed, even while acknowledging the removal was an "administrative error," they could not compel Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to return a prisoner under his jurisdiction. The administration also repeatedly claimed he was a member of the transnational criminal gang MS-13, which Abrego Garcia denies.

He was finally returned to the United States earlier in the summer, but was immediately hit with federal charges alleging he engaged in a human smuggling scheme. Attorneys representing him say the charges are "baseless" and an attempt by the administration to save face.