The Maryland father who the federal government mistakenly deported to El Salvador, brought back to the U.S., and then accused of human smuggling walked free on Friday—but now the government plans to deport him to Uganda.

In a filing submitted to a federal judge in Tennessee, Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers said that the government informed him he would be deported to Uganda on Monday after he declined an offer to be deported to Costa Rica.

His lawyers portrayed the government’s latest move as an attempt to retaliate against him for protesting his deportation to El Salvador, where Abrego Garcia claims he was physically and psychologically tortured at the notorious CECOT prison.

The government’s actions, they wrote, “leave little doubt that the entire federal government is engaged in a

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