this Trump administration It has been said that the plan to deport Kilmarábrego García to Uganda a few months after being wrongly sent to El Salvador has become a flashpoint for the president’s wider crackdown on immigration.
In filing the paper, Ábrego’s lawyers asked the court to dismiss the case against him on grounds that the challenge of his initial expulsion to El Salvador was to punish him for his judgment.
try Deport Garcia to faraway Uganda – A country he doesn’t know yet to contact – added a new twist to the legend, which became a lightning rod for Trump’s harsh crackdown on illegal immigration, who saw right-wing supporters praise the president’s resilience, but legal scholars and human rights advocates slammed them for talking about effortless people, they said about accidental people without the need to violate court hearings and violate basic laws, a person without responsibility.
Who is Kilmarábrego García?
Kilmar Abrego GarcíaCourt records say 30, growing up in El Salvador, fled at the age of 16 as local gangs blackmailed his family and terrorized him. He traveled to Maryland where his brother lived as a U.S. citizen but had no right to stay.
Ábrego found a job in the construction industry and met his future wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura. In 2018, he moved in with her and her two children after he was pregnant.
Court records say Ábrego went to a warehouse in March 2019 when he was detained by local police and sought work.
Records say a criminal informant told police that Ábrego was a member of the international crime gang MS-13, but the police did not accuse him, but handed him over to him. Immigration in the United States and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Ábrego denied any affiliation with MS-13 through his attorney. He has no criminal record in the United States or El Salvador.
A U.S. immigration judge denied Ábrego’s asylum claim because more than a year has passed since his arrival, but the judge granted him protection from being expelled from El Salvador, confirming he suffered “full fear” about the gang there.
Abrego was released and under federal supervision. His attorney said he received a federal work permit and checked in with the ICE annually.
Why did he become internationally renowned?
In February, the Trump administration designated MS-13 as a foreign terrorist organization. March, It expels Abrego Garcia In a prison in El Salvador, violating the 2019 order of the U.S. immigration judge.
Ábrego later claimed in court documents that he was Beatings and psychological torture In the El Salvador Prison. The country’s President Nayib Bukele, Denied these allegations.
The Trump administration later admitted that it mistakenly sent him to El Salvador’s notorious highest security prison, but Donald Trump and other officials doubled their claims about Ábrego on MS-13.
this The U.S. Supreme Court later ordered The Trump administration “promotes” the return of Ábrego. He returned in Juneand then quickly arrested and charged with trafficking undocumented immigrants.
The case stems from traffic parking in 2022, during which time Ábrego drove with nine passengers. Tennessee police suspected human smuggling, but allowed him to drive without accusing him of it.
Ábrego pleaded not guilty and his lawyer filed a motion to dismiss the case with a “defense and selective prosecution”.
He hadn’t seen his family for more than 160 days at that time.
Why is he threatened with deportation?
A U.S. magistrate judge ruled in June that Ábrego had the right to be released from prison while awaiting trial, but he remained in Tennessee jail for about 11 weeks at the request of his lawyer, worried that the ICE would immediately attempt to deport him.
ICE assistant director Thomas Giles testified in July that Ábrego would be detained immediately after his release.
To cope with the concern, Ábrego will be deported without due process and U.S. District Court prohibits ICE from detaining him immediately after his release in Tennessee.
Shortly after the order, Ábrego’s lawyers asked a Tennessee federal judge to release him.
He was released Friday, demanding to stay in Maryland with his brother and be under electronic surveillance and family detention. He said in a statement Friday that he met his family for the first time in more than five months.
Before he was released, government officials pleaded guilty to him: continuing detention, plead guilty to human smuggling charges and being expelled from Costa Rica, his lawyer said in a document. He refused the offer.
After Ábrego left the prison, ICE told his lawyer that he would be deported to Uganda and should report to immigration authorities on Monday.
Late Friday, the government told Ábrego that he did not accept a request for defense until the first thing Monday in exchange for deportation, and he was reportedly considered a refugee rather than a jail sentence – otherwise, the defense lawyer wrote.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the government did not stop fighting until he left the United States.
With French Band and the Associated Press
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