By Black Star News
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The Trump Administration is threatening to deport El Salvador immigrant Kilmar Ábrego-García to Uganda.
Abrego-Garcia was detained early Monday after reporting to ICE agents, in Baltimore. The Department of Homeland Security announced that he would be deported within 72 hours.
Abrego-Garcia’s attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenber denounced the actions of the Trump Administration, before a crown of supporters in Baltimore. “The only reason he was taken into detention was to punish him. To punish him for exercising his constitutional rights.”
The planned deportation of Abrego-Garcia, to Uganda, is said to be retribution for Abrego-Garcia’s refusal to plead guilty to human smuggling charges. Reportedly, if Garcia pleaded guilty he would’ve been been sent to Costa Rica presumably after serving time on the smuggling charges.
“The fact that they are holding Costa Rica as a carrot and using Uganda as a stick to try to coerce him to plead guilty for a crime is such clear evidence that they are weaponizing the immigration system in a matter that is completely unconstitutional,” Sandoval-Moshenberg said.
In March, the Trump Administration’s deportation of Abrego-Garcia made international news because of the unlawful manner in which he was deported to El Salvador. As a teen, Abrego-Garcia is said to have left El Salvador in an effort to flee gang violence threats. He was returned to America, in June, after much legal maneuvering, and the intervention of several Democratic members of Congress.
A judge, in 2019, had ruled that Garcia should not be deported to his native El Salvador—because of the violence he might face. That ruling allowed Garcia to live and work in the United States. Garcia was complying with all of the procedures required of him, including regular visits to ICE, before he was attacked by the Trump White House.
Abrego-Garcia’s lawyer questions whether Garcia will end up in another country, if he is deported to Uganda, and eventually be sent back to El Salvador, where his life would be in jeopardy.
“The main issue, aside from the actual conditions in that country is – is that country actually going to let him stay there?” Sandoval-Moshenberg said. “They can offer to send him to Madrid, Spain, and unless Madrid, Spain, is going to let him remain in that country, essentially what it is – is a very inconvenient layover on the way to El Salvador, which is the one country that it has already determined that he cannot be sent to.”
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