Kilmar Abrego Garcia attends an event with supporters, as he appears for a check-in at the ICE field office in in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 25, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters/File

Officials from three different African nations have said they won’t let the US deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to their countries, potentially frustrating the Trump administration’s plans to keep him in custody.

The rejections – two of which were revealed by a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official in a Maryland courtroom on Friday – could lead a federal judge to order the administration to release Abrego Garcia from immigration custody for now, if she decides that his deportation does not appear imminent.

The countries – Uganda, Eswatini and Ghana – have said at various points in recent weeks

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