Kilmar Abrego Garcia, centre, and his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura, left, at a rally at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Baltimore on Monday.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has come to encapsulate much of President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration agenda, wants to seek asylum in the United States, his lawyers told a federal judge Wednesday.

Abrego Garcia, 30, was detained Monday by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement in Baltimore after leaving a Tennessee jail on Friday. The Trump administration said it intends to deport him to the African country of Uganda.

Administration officials have said he’s part of the dangerous MS-13 gang, an allegation Abrego Garcia denies.

The Salvadoran national’s lawyers are fighting the deportation efforts in court, arg

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