Kilmar Abrego Garcia was reunited with his family for less than 72 hours before Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained him again, this time with plans to deport him to Uganda.
Now he’s fighting a deportation that his legal team calls a “coordinated effort” by the U.S. government to “punish” him “for fighting back against its unlawful conduct.”
In March, Abrego Garcia was sent to El Salvador’s notoriously violent CECOT prison despite having temporary protective status in the United States—which the Trump administration admitted was a mistake.
Since then, Abrego Garcia has become a target of the Trump administration. On the eve of his return home to Maryland, he was offered by the Trump team a deportation to Costa Rica, in exchange for admitting to human trafficking and tie