Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Baltimore man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year, was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody Monday.
Abrego Garcia went to the Baltimore ICE office Monday for an immigration check-in, which was part of his condition of release from federal custody, his attorney said.
Abrego Garcia's attorneys said they expected he would be taken into ICE custody during the check-in after the Trump administration announced over the weekend its intention to deport him to Uganda.
"There was no need to take him into ICE detention. ... The only reason they took him into detention was to punish him," for using his constitutional right to speak up and fight proceedings, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of Abrego Garcia's attorneys, said Monday morning.
Abrego Garcia was reunited with his family last week after 160 days of separation. He now faces deportation to Uganda while he awaits trial for a human trafficking charge in Tennessee.
