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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Trump administration is rejecting Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s request to self deport

  • The administration is finalizing plans to deport Salvadoran immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, despite a federal judge currently blocking his removal.
  • Abrego Garcia's legal team states he is willing to self-deport to Costa Rica, which has agreed to accept him, but the administration deems this "prejudicial to the United States."
  • This deportation effort is part of the president's mass deportation campaign, with the administration having previously tried to send Abrego Garcia to at least five different countries.
  • Abrego Garcia, who has an American wife and child, was wrongly deported to a Salvadoran prison last year where he says he was tortured. Several judges and a unanimous Supreme Court ordered the government to return him.
  • Upon his return, he faced criminal charges for allegedly moving other immigrants, which his attorneys argue is "vindictive and selective prosecution" by the administration.

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