65 h. ago What to know Kilmar Abrego Garcia's asylum claim. Experts say it's a smart but risky legal move

Legal experts say Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s request for asylum in the United States is a smart but risky legal strategy

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3 d. ago Kilmar Abrego Garcia seeks gag order against Trump administration, singles out Noem and Bondi’s ‘inflammatory’ attacks

Barrage of public attacks could taint jury pools with ‘irrelevant, prejudicial, and false claims,’ according to Abrego Garcia’s attorneys

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5 d. ago Judge blocks Trump administration from deporting Kilmar Ábrego García again

Federal judge says man wrongfully deported to El Salvador cannot be expelled until October as asylum case proceedsA federal judge ruled on Wednesday morning that Kilmar Ábrego García cannot be deported until at least early October, according to CNN.The outlet also reported that US District Judge Paula Xinis, who is presiding over the case, scheduled an evidentiary hearing for 6 October, and said that she intends to have Trump administration officials testify about the government’s efforts to re-deport Ábrego. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in jail and facing deportation. Here's what to know

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is in a Virginia detention center and facing deportation to Uganda

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6 d. ago The case against Kilmar Ábrego García is a study in sadistic absurdity | Moira Donegan

In its allegations against the Maryland man, the Trump administration is claiming authority over reality itselfIn a way, you could think of the brief stint that Kilmar Ábrego García spent in a Tennessee jail after his return from a Salvadorian prison camp in June as a kind of protective custody. Ábrego, a Maryland resident who had never been charged with any crime either in the US or in his native El Salvador, became a symbol of the Trump administration’s ambitiously sadistic anti-immigration efforts when he was kidnapped by I agents in March and sent without due process to Cecot, a massive prison in El Salvador from which few detainees are ever released, as a result of what representatives for the Trump immigration authorities called an administrative error. Ábrego became a symbol for the several hundred men who had been deprived of their liberty and deported to the distant foreign prison without due process and in defiance of both American and international law.It was only after e...

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7 d. ago Trump administration ‘absolutely forbidden’ from quickly deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, judge says

Abrego Garcia was arrested on Monday in Baltimore, at a check-in with immigration authorities, under 72 hours after being released from federal custody as he awaits a smuggling trial

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7 d. ago Judge halts Trump administration from deporting Kilmar Ábrego García for now

Maryland man, back in US after being wrongly deported to El Salvador, detained again and faces deportation to UgandaKilmar Ábrego García – who has been thrust into the middle of an acrimonious deportation saga by the second Trump administration – has been detained after reporting to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents in Baltimore on Monday, but a judge later ruled that he cannot be deported for now.His detainment comes just three days after his release from criminal custody in Tennessee.Shrai Popat contributed reporting Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Photos of Abrego Garcia turning himself in at ICE office surrounded by family and supporters

Kilmar Abrego Garcia turn himself in at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore on Monday. He was accompanied by his wife, brother and supporters who were protesting the Trump administration's plan to deport him to Uganda.

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7 d. ago Ice is processing Kilmar Ábrego García for deportation, Kristi Noem says – US politics live

US homeland security secretary says Ábrego García is being processed for deportation but doesn’t say where he will be sent amid concerns he will go to UgandaKilmar Ábrego García detained after reporting to US immigration agentsThe justice department is alleging in a new court filing that three Smartmatic executives who were indicted last year on bribery and money-laundering charges transferred money from a 2018 voting machine contract with Los Angeles county into slush funds that were originally set up to pay bribes to election officials in Venezuela and the Philippines between 2012 and 2016 to obtain and retain lucrative election contracts.Prosecutors say one of the executives transferred an undisclosed amount from the $282m LA county contract into the slush funds in 2019 but did not say if anyone actually received bribes from the county’s money at that point. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago As Kilmar Abrego Garcia is detained again by ICE, here’s why his case has become a flashpoint for MAGA

El Salvador native arrives in Baltimore for ICE check-in just days after being informed that the Trump administration intends to deport him to Uganda

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7 d. ago Kilmar Ábrego García detained after reporting to US immigration agents

Maryland man, back in US after being wrongly deported to El Salvador, is threatened with deportation to UgandaKilmar Ábrego García – who has been thrust into the middle of an acrimonious deportation saga by the second Trump administration – has been detained after reporting to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents in Baltimore on Monday.“The only reason he was taken into detention was to punish him,” Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, an attorney representing Ábrego, told a crowd of supporters outside a Baltimore Ice field office on Monday. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago The Latest: Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces deportation again as he surrenders to ICE office

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has surrendered to U.S. immigration authorities in Baltimore

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7 d. ago Kilmar Abrego Garcia surrenders to ICE in Baltimore, faces possible deportation to Uganda

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has surrendered to immigration authorities in Baltimore and faces possible efforts by the Trump administration to deport him to Uganda

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8 d. ago Back home in Maryland, Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces deportation again as he reports to ICE office

Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces deportation to Uganda after checking in with immigration officials on Monday in Baltimore

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9 d. ago Kilmar Abrego Garcia says Trump admin is trying to force him to plead guilty with Uganda threat

Wrongfully deported Salvadoran immigrant ordered to report to ICE’s Baltimore field office Monday morning

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9 d. ago Kristi Noem rages over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release as ICE warns he may be deported to Uganda

Kilmar Abrego Garcia ordered to report to ICE’s Baltimore field office Monday morning

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9 d. ago Kristi Noem rages over Kilmar Abrego Garcia release as ICE warns he may be deported to Uganda

Kilmar Abrego Garcia ordered to report to ICE’s Baltimore field office Monday morning

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1 week ago Trump administration threatens to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda within days after he’s released from detention

The case of the Salvadoran migrant became a symbol of the Trump administration’s boundary-pushing approach to mass deportations

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1 week ago Kilmar Ábrego García released from criminal custody after court order

Ábrego will return home to Maryland from Tennessee for first time after wrongful deportation to El SalvadorKilmar Ábrego García has been freed on Friday from criminal custody in Tennessee so he can rejoin his family in Maryland while awaiting trial on human smuggling charges, after a court ordered his release.Magistrate judge Barbara Holmes issued an order allowing the father of two to leave custody for the first time since his return to the US in June, following his wrongful deportation to El Salvador earlier this year. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from Tennessee jail ahead of smuggling trial

Case of Salvadoran immigrant became symbol of Trump administration’s boundary-pushing approach to mass deportations

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