By seeking asylum in the US, the wrongfully deported Salvadorean national reignites legal battles and highlights policy contradictions
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has become the face of US President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration agenda, wants to seek asylum in the United States, his lawyers told a federal judge on Wednesday.
Abrego Garcia, 30, was detained on Monday in Baltimore by US Customs and Immigration Enforcement after leaving a Tennessee jail on Friday. The Trump administration said it intends to deport him to the African country of Uganda.
Administration officials have said he is part of the dangerous MS-13 gang, an allegation Abrego Garcia denies.
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