Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March and later returned to the U.S., was taken into federal custody Monday morning by immigration authorities. An attorney for Abrego Garcia confirmed the news to NPR.

The detention, which was expected, happened minutes after Abrego Garcia walked into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Baltimore for a check-in after being released from federal custody on Friday in Tennessee pending a trial on separate criminal charges.

Talking to supporters gathered outside the building, Abrego Garcia said seeing his family over the weekend filled him with hope, and said those moments “will give me strength to continue fighting.”

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    Here’s a story from last week, they’re trying to save face.

    Abrego Garcia’s attorneys say government trying to coerce him to accept guilty plea or face deportation to Uganda

    The federal government is trying to force Kilmar Abrego Garcia to accept a guilty plea or face deportation to Uganda, his attorneys claimed in a filing on Saturday.

    After Abrego Garcia declined an offer to be deported to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to the human smuggling charges, his attorneys say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement informed them that he could be deported to Uganda and ordered him to report to their office in Baltimore on Monday.

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/abrego-garcias-attorneys-government-coerce-accept-guilty-plea/story?id=124916582

    • Xella@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      I’m so confused. Uganda? I thought this man was from El Salvador. Are we just sending immigrants to random countries at this point? What the fuck?

      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
        14·
        3 months ago

        They’ve been doing this for awhile now. They’re also not saying who they’re sending, there are no court cases, and we are building concentration camps on American soil. Welcome to Nazi America.