Kilmar Abrego Garcia, pictured at center, was released from jail in Putnam County, Tennessee, on August 22, 2025. (John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
WASHINGTON — Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man who the Trump administration admitted to wrongly deporting in March, said over the weekend that the administration moved him from one U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Virginia to another in Pennsylvania, raising concerns over his access to legal counsel.
In a Saturday legal filing, attorneys representing Abrego Garcia in a criminal case in Tennessee said the federal government’s decision to move him to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania, has made it difficult to meet and “properly prepare for trial.”
His attorneys also raised conce