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The Salvadorian migrant and US resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia never set a foot to Uganda. Still wants that Government of US President Donald Trump Now deport him there. On Monday, he was arrested again in the event of a routine report from the US immigration authority ICE in Baltimore.
Deportation to Uganda as a means of pressure
It is the latest escalation in the case of the family man from Maryland, which the authorities had illegally deported to El Salvador at the beginning of the year. Before they brought him back to the USA to raise new charges in Tennessee.
The Ministry of Homeland Protection (DHS) had already stated that Abrego Garcia would be identified again if he was released in Tennessee on deposit. DHS Minister Kristi Noem said on X: “Today Ice Kilmar Abrego Garcia arrested. He is being prepared for deportation to Uganda.” The man’s lawyers then applied to the court in Maryland to stop the impending deportation to a third country without reference to him. The US State Department even warns US citizens about trips to Uganda for terrorist risk and violent crime.
Abrego Garcia has never been convicted of a crime. Nevertheless, NoEM publicly referred to him as a “MS-13 gang member. Human dealer. Series gunpelters and child molesters”, whom Trump will not “let American citizens terrorize”. Although a judge in Tennessee had prohibited the government of making such statements about the case.
Lawyers speak of blackmail
On Friday, Abrego Garcia was released from pre -trial detention in Tennessee. A judge had found that there was no risk of escape or threat to the public. Before that, the government is said to have offered him a deal. Creed in the return for a life in Costa Rica after serving a punishment. Or release with subsequent deportation to Uganda. At that time, Abrego Garcia was already in custody for over 160 days.
“The fact that they use Costa Rica as a ‘carrot’ and Uganda as a ‘stock’ to force him to do so clearly shows that the immigration system is used politically-in a clearly unconstitutional way,” said his lawyer Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg.
He accused the government of “disappearing” Abrego Garcia while breaking a judicial order. “Now, after months of delay and secrecy, they bring him back – not to correct your mistake, but to punish him. This shows that you have deceived the court right from the start. The rule of law means to defend yourself before you are punished – not after.”