Sept. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has informed Kilmar Abrego Garcia that it plans to deport the Salvadoran national to the tiny African nation of Eswatini, rather than Uganda.
Abrego Garcia, a resident of Baltimore who is being detained at the Farmville Detention Center in Virginia, received an email by an ICE official obtained by CNN and then The Hill.
The email said because of Abrego Garcia's concerns about being deported to Uganda, he will instead be sent to Eswatini in southeast Africa despite having no ties to Africa, including Eswatini, which a population of 1.2 million and is about the size of New Jersey.
"That claim of fear is hard to take seriously, especially given that you have claimed (through your attorneys) that you fear persecution or torture in at least 22 different countries," the email said. "Nonetheless, we hereby notify you that your new country of removal is Eswatini, Africa."
The countries he has raised concerns about include El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Haiti.
