El Salvador declines to return Garcia
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President Donald Trump's administration is planning to deport migrant Kilmar Abrego for a second time, but does not plan to send him back to El Salvador, where he was wrongly deported in March, a lawyer for the administration told a judge on Thursday.
The deportation will not happen until after Abrego is tried in federal court on migrant smuggling charges, a White House spokesperson said.
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The Trump administration has told Kilmar Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man at the centre of a long-running immigration row, he could be deported to the southern African kingdom of Eswatini.
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The final order of removal against illegal immigrant and accused MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia will stand after an immigration judge rejected a motion from his attorneys to reopen the case Wednesday.
In August, Abrego Garcia’s attorneys had petitioned to reopen the case due to fears that he was at risk of “imminent removal to Uganda” after the Department of Homeland Security notified them that he may get deported to the African country.
“The word ‘may’ is permissive,” Regional Deputy Chief Immigration Judge Philip Taylor wrote in his opinion.
“[It] indicates to the Court that in sending this notification to Respondent’s counsel, the Department sought to convey that it reserved the right to remove him to Uganda, not necessarily that it intended to do so, that it had decided to do so, or that it would do so imminently.”
Kilmar Garcia and his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura among a crowd of supporters.
