Kilmar Abrego García, a Salvadoran immigrant who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador earlier this year, has been released from a Tennessee jail and is now back in Maryland awaiting trial on human smuggling charges. His release, however, is overshadowed by new threats from U.S. immigration authorities. After declining a plea deal that would have resulted in deportation to Costa Rica, García’s legal team was informed that the Trump administration intends to deport him to Uganda, a country that recently agreed to accept certain deportees from the U.S.

García’s case has drawn widespread attention due to the circumstances surrounding his initial deportation. In March, despite a 2019 court ruling granting him protection from removal due to credible threats of gang violence in El Salvador, he

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