Kilmar Abrego Garcia , a Salvadoran national who has been at the center of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, could be deported to Liberia by the end of the month, according to the government's court filing on Friday.

Newsweek has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) and Abrego Garcia’s lawyer for comment via email on Saturday.

Why It Matters

Garcia’s immigration story has been in the spotlight since March when the Trump administration sent him to the high-security CECOT prison in El Salvador in what was deemed an administrative error. He was returned to the United States in June after a months-long court fight and now faces human smuggling charges, which he denies, stemming from a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee.

Since a court order preven

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