Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose wrongful deportation made him a symbol of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration , wishes to seek asylum in the United States.

Lawyers for Abrego Garcia told a judge on Wednesday that the 30-year-old fears persecution and torture should the Trump administration succeed in deporting him to Uganda , as it plans to do.

Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man who arrived in the US at the age of 16, was once again taken into the custody of immigration authorities on Monday, as part of a high-stakes back-and-forth over his ability to stay in the country.

In March, Abrego Garcia first made headlines when he was sent back to his native El Salvador, despite a 2019 court order protecting him from deportation.

The Trump administration initially admitted that th

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