Months after the government said that he was wrongly sent to a mega prison in El Salvador, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is confronted with another deportation threat.
After his release of federal custody in Tennessee on Friday, immigration officials revealed plans to deport the father from Maryland to Uganda, after he had rejected an offer that was deported to Costa Rica in exchange for guilty of human smuggling costs.
According to Abrego’s defense lawyers, the government said that he has until Monday morning to accept the deal, or “that offer will be off the table forever.”
Under the imminent threat of a second deportation, Abrego, a 30-year-old Salvadoran National, was planned to check in at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office in Baltimore as part of the conditions of his release of the federal custody.
Speaking during a meeting before he surrendered to ice early Monday, Abrego told the crowd: “Brothers and sisters, my name is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and I want you to remember this: remember that I am free and I could be reunited with my family.”
Shortly after he entered a federal building for his check-in, Abrego was held by Ice Agents.
MAGA-Uitgelde officials have cast ABREGO as a test case to show the solution of the administration about the enforcement of its hardline immigration policy.
While Abrego is fighting another deportation order, this is what you need to know about his case:
Who is Kilmar Abrego Garcia?
Abrego fled El Salvador at the age of 16 because the Barrio 18 -Streetbende extorted and terrorized, the court reports. He traveled to Maryland in 2011, where his brother lives like an American citizen, but was not authorized to stay.
Abrego found work in construction and met Jennifer Vasquez Sura, who would later become his wife. In 2018 he moved in with her and her two children after she became pregnant with his child.
While he was looking for work in a home depot in March 2019, the police arrested and accused him of being a member of the ultra-violent, transnational street gang the Mara Salvatrucha-Beter known as MS-13.
According to a judicial document, civil servants have lifted their allegations over three evidence: a hat of Chicago Bulls, a hoodie and an unnamed informant who claimed that Abrego was a member of the clique of the group in New York, where he never lived.
Through his lawyers, Abrego has denied every bond with MS-13. He has no criminal record in the US or El Salvador.
A judge then granted Abrego protection against deportation to his homeland El Salvador because he can be confronted there with the danger of death threats of the Barrio 18 Street Gang.
Abrego, released under federal supervision, held a work permit and reported to ICE every year, said his lawyers.
Why was he deported to El Salvador?
On March 12, Abrego Garcia was drawn by federal agents who accused him of ties with MS-13 and inaccurately stated that his protected status in the US had changed.
Three days later he was on a plane with other migrants to the Cecot prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, the largest in all of Latin -America, with a maximum of 40,000 prisoners. This was after Trump had invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
Only a month earlier, the Trump government MS-13 has designated a foreign terrorist organization. The street gang arrived in Los Angeles in the 1980s, who largely consisted of Salvadoran immigrants who flee their home country after a brutal civil war.
Abrego later claimed that he was being beaten and psychologically tortured in the El Salvador prison, according to judicial documents that President Nayib Bukele denies of the country.
Members of the Trump government had positioned the expulsion of Abrego as an ‘administrative error’. However, the president and his top staff have repeatedly accused Abrego of being a ‘terrorist’ and a gang member.
The Supreme Court later instructed the government to ‘facilitate’ the return from Abrego to the US
He was returned to the US in June of this year, before he was quickly arrested and sued by a federal large jury on accusation of people with people with human trafficking, from a traffic stop of 2022.
Tennessee’s police initially suspected the human smuggling, but let him go without charges. Abrego did not argue, and his lawyers submitted a motion to reject the case, with reference to “vengeful and selective prosecution”.
Why is he threatened with deportation to Uganda?
In June, an American magistrate ruled that Abrego had the right to be released pending the process. At the request of his lawyers, however, he remained in a prison of Tennessee for about 11 weeks, due to fearing that ice would try to deport him immediately.
The following month ICE assistant -director Thomas Giles witnessed that Abrego would be held as soon as he was released. Nevertheless, an American district judge blocked the action, stating concern about the process.
Within a few minutes after he was released from a prison by Tennessee on Friday, because he is waiting for the criminal trial, Ice Officers Abrego told that he might be deported to Uganda – a country with which he has no bond – said his lawyers.
If he would argue for criminal smuggling to him, the Trump government said on Thursday that he would be removed to Costa Rica, according to his lawyers.
Costa Rica assured that he can ‘live freely’ as a refugee or with residence status and would not be sent back to his home country, the lawyers said. Abrego seemed to have refused the scheme and was released on Friday.
DHS then sent an e -mail to the lawyers of ABREGO and warned that IJs was planning to deport the Salvadoran immigrant to Oganda “not earlier than 72 hours over now” and ordered him to appear on an ice agency in Baltimore on Monday.
Although check-ins are usually short, the legal team of Abrego NBC News said it expected that he will be brought into custody.
If Abrego does not change his plea in the federal case of Tennessee, it is possible that he can be deported to Uganda as soon as Wednesday.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noom warned that the administration would not stop fighting until he left the country.
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