The man wrongly expelled towards El Salvador by us seeks asylum to avoid deportation to Uganda
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has come to encapsulate a large part of the hard immigration program of American president Donald Trump, wants to ask his lawyers on Wednesday from a federal judge.
Abrego Garcia, 30, was detained on Monday by the United States and the application of immigration (ICE) in Baltimore after leaving a Tennessee prison on Friday. The Trump administration said it intended to deport it to the African country in Uganda.
Administration officials said he was part of the dangerous Gang MS-13, an allegation that Grego Garcia Nie.
The lawyers of the Salvadoran national fight the expulsion efforts in court, arguing that he had the right to express the fear of persecution and torture in Uganda.
Abrego Garcia also told the immigration authorities that he would prefer to be sent to Costa Rica if he were to be withdrawn from the United States
An asylum application in 2019
An American immigration judge rejected his asylum application in 2019 because he applied more than a year after fled to the United States, he left El Salvador at the age of 16, around 2011, to join his brother, who had become an American citizen and lived in Maryland.
Although he denied asylum, the immigration judge made an order protecting Abrego Garcia from expulsion to El Salvador because he faced threats of credible violence of a gang which had terrorized there, him and his family.
Three days after having been released from the guard, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvado Migrant who became a flash point for repression of immigration to the United States, was again held by immigration and the application of customs to deal with human smuggling charges and a potential deportation to Uganda.
He obtained a form of protection known as the “reservoir”, which prohibits the government from sending it to Salvador but allows its expulsion to another country.
After the 2019 decision, Abrego Garcia was released under federal surveillance and continued to live with his American wife and children in Maryland. He registered with ice each year, received a federal work permit and worked as an apprentice in sheet metal earlier this year, said his lawyers.
But in March, the Trump administration wrongly expelled Abrego Garcia in a notorious prison in El Salvador, alleging that he was a member of MS-13.
The allegation comes from a day in 2019, when Abrego Garcia asked for work as a day worker in a home depot in Maryland. He was arrested by the police but was never charged – and repeatedly denied this allegation. He was put back in ice, and it was then that he applied for asylum for the first time.
Unjustified expulsion and return
The deportation by the Trump administration of Abrego Garcia in March violated the 2019 ordinance of the immigration judge unless his dismissal in Salvador. Abrego Garcia’s wife continued to bring him back. Faced with increasing pressure and an order from the United States Supreme Court, the Trump administration returned Abrego Garcia to the United States in June, where it was accused of human smuggling, a federal offense.
He pleaded not guilty and asked the judge to reject the case, saying that he had been deposited for punishing him for disputed his expulsion.
The loads arise from a stop of traffic in 2022 for speeding in Tennessee. There were nine passengers in the SUV, and Abrego Garcia carried $ 1,400 in cash. While the police discussed their suspicions of traffic between them, he was allowed to repel with only a warning.
An internal security agent said he had started investigating until April, when the government was facing increasing pressure to return Abrego Garcia to the United States, the trial is scheduled for January.
The Trump administration alleges that it is a danger
On Friday, a federal judge of Tennessee released Abrego Garcia from prison after having decided that he was not a risk of theft or a danger. The Trump administration moved on Monday to expel Abrego Garcia, alleging that it was a danger.
Abrego Garcia then declared his intention to reopen his immigration affair in Maryland and to seek asylum again, his lawyers announced on Wednesday. Asylum, as defined by American law, provides a green card and a path to citizenship. Abrego Garcia can always question his expulsion to Uganda, or any other country, on the grounds that it is dangerous.
His lawyers say that sending to Uganda would be a punishment for having succeeded in fighting his expulsion to El Salvador, refusing to plead guilty to the charges of smuggling and the liberation of prison in Tennessee.
The lawyers of Abrego Garcia have filed a federal complaint to ensure that he can exercise his constitutionally protected right to fight against expulsion. US District Judge Paula Xinis, Maryland, who oversees the trial, said the United States government could not withdraw ABREGO GARCIA from the country while the trial takes place.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose erroneous expulsion to El Salvador has become a political flash point in the application of the Trump administration immigration, has returned to the United States to face criminal accusations related to what the United States said they are a massive operation of human smuggling that illegally brought immigrants to the country. Photo credit: family Abrego Garcia
