GREENBELT, Md. — Kilmar Abrego Garcia will seek asylum in the U.S. amid attempts by the Trump administration to deport him to the East African nation of Uganda, his attorneys said Wednesday.

Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of the attorneys representing Abrego Garcia in his efforts to fight deportation in Maryland, told a federal judge they have petitioned to reopen his 2019 immigration proceedings. An immigration judge previously found he was deportable, but granted a withholding of removal to his home country of El Salvador due to threats of gang violence.

The Department of Homeland Security said over the weekend it will seek to remove Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he rejrected an offer to plead guilty in his federal human smuggling case in Tennessee . Abrego Garcia turned himself into

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