Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia again after a federal judge releases him.
Abrego Garcia’s case garnered national attention when the Trump administration deported him to El Salvador earlier this year. Critics argued that the administration did not provide him, or the other deportees, with proper due process before removing them.
Abrego Garcia was residing in Maryland after having entered the country illegally in 2012. A judge later granted a withholding of removal order shielding him from deportation to his home country because he feared violence from gangs in El Salvador.
Federal immigration officials indicated that they will deport Abrego Garcia to an unidentified “third country” after his release, NOTUS reported.
A Justice Department lawyer revealed new details about the administration’s intentions in federal court Thursday afternoon when facing questions from U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, who has spent months demanding the government return Abrego Garcia and explain how and why it deported him in the first place.
After Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem vowed that Abrego Garcia would “never return” to the U.S., he was brought back to the United States to face criminal charges in Tennessee.
But now that the magistrate and