Kilmar Abrego Garcia expects to be detained by ICE again, attorney says

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Source: NPR

Updated August 24, 2025 6:28 PM ET


The attorney for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man wrongfully deported to a notorious El Salvadoran prison and later returned to the U.S., said he expects him to be detained by immigration officials again on Monday.

Abrego Garcia, who was released from criminal custody in Tennessee on Friday while he awaits federal trial, has been told to report to an ICE detention center in Baltimore on Monday, attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg said during an interview with All Things Considered that aired on Sunday.

"I don't see any need for ICE to detain him. They've got him right now," Sandoval-Moshenberg said, saying that Abrego Garcia is being monitored electronically by the U.S. Marshals Service through a GPS ankle bracelet. "But that said, I expect that ICE will take him into detention because, well, pretty much that's what they do. They have said they're going to try to deport him."

After Abrego Garcia was released Friday, immigration officials notified his attorneys that they plan to deport him to Uganda after he rejected a plea deal to be deported to Costa Rica in exchange for pleading guilty to smuggling charges and remaining in jail, Abrego Garcia's lawyers said in a court filing on Saturday.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/08/24/nx-s1-5514814/kilmar-abrego-garcia-could-be-detained-by-ice-again-attorney-says

[Walleye]

1. Detained! Sick of that word, he's being imprisoned. He should go to trial. They'll never prove it.

[Irish_Dem]

2. They can't prove anything so Trump has to keep kidnapping and sending him to gulags.

[BoRaGard]

3. G.O.P. is so small, so petty, so un-Christlike

so dark and mean and evil

so pathetically un-American

[Blues Heron]

4. they are so evil. leave Kilmar alone!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Deadline: Legal Blog-Abrego's criminal case was always a farce. The government's latest actions show why.

Attorney General Pam Bondi previously touted the importance of Abrego’s criminal charges. Now the government wants to deport him to Uganda.

Abrego’s criminal case was always a farce. The government’s latest actions show why.
Attorney General Pam Bondi previously touted the importance of Abrego’s criminal charges. Now the government wants to deport him to Uganda.
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— Nate (@palm7x.bsky.social) 2025-08-25T14:33:01.009Z

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/kilmar-abrego-garcia-criminal-case-pam-bondi-rcna226934

But a court filing from Abrego’s lawyers over the weekend shows that the administration has taken its vengeance to a new level. According to the filing, on Thursday — the day before he would be released — the government told his counsel that if he agreed to stay in custody and plead guilty, then he could be deported to Costa Rica after he serves whatever sentence the court would impose. Like El Salvador, Costa Rica is a Spanish-speaking country in Central America.....

After his release, an immigration official said the government now wants to deport him to the African nation of Uganda. He was ordered to report to a Baltimore immigration office on Monday morning and was given until then either to accept the Costa Rica deal “or else that offer will be off the table forever,” Abrego’s lawyers wrote in the Saturday filing......

I should note that in criminal cases across the country — ones you’ve never heard of and never will — prosecutors make plea offers that force defendants to make choices that would put them in bad situations immediately to avoid worse fates down the line. Against that backdrop, it’s unsurprising that most cases don’t go to trial. In the ones that do, defendants who are convicted face greater punishment than they would have faced had they pleaded guilty, a phenomenon that’s been called “the trial penalty.” So at least from the defense’s vantage point, there’s an element of legalized coercion baked into the system.

In that light, it’s understandable that not everyone sees American justice as a righteous concept to begin with. But it can always be further degraded.

The Trump administration seems hellbent on such degradation. Having embarrassed itself with the illegal removal of Abrego and failure to quickly fix it, it’s now acting as a sort of dystopian travel agent in a desperate bid to avoid a criminal case that it didn’t have to bring in the first place.

Rather than ensuring that Abrego “face justice,” as Bondi proclaimed upon his U.S. return, the government appears to be trying to save face. No matter what happens next, that won’t be possible in the eyes of people who’ve been paying attention. The damage to American justice has been done.

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6. Deadline: Legal Blog--Judge temporarily blocks Trump from deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda

The Trump administration took him into immigration custody Monday morning after he was released from criminal custody on Friday.

Judge temporarily blocks Trump from deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

— Minka (@minkab.bsky.social) 2025-08-25T19:26:27.128Z

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/kilmar-abrego-garcia-uganda-judge-rcna226995

A federal judge on Monday temporarily barred the Trump administration from deporting Kilmar Abrego Garica to Uganda, pending a further hearing, NBC News reported.

The temporary reprieve from U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis during a hearing on Monday afternoon came quickly after Abrego was detained on Monday morning when he reported to immigration authorities in Maryland, following his release from criminal custody in Tennessee on Friday. Before his release from criminal custody, the government offered him a plea deal that would have resulted in his deportation to Costa Rica, which, like his birth country of El Salvador, is a Spanish-speaking country in Central America. But after his release, the government said it intended to deport him to the African nation of Uganda. His lawyers then filed a new lawsuit in Maryland to challenge his latest detention and impending removal.

Abrego had been living in Maryland when the government illegally sent him to El Salvador in March, despite a 2019 court order that barred his removal to that country for his fear of persecution there. The U.S. government resisted court orders to return him until June, when it brought him to Tennessee to face charges of unlawfully transporting undocumented immigrants. He pleaded not guilty.

Xinis, an Obama appointee, is the judge who initially ordered his U.S. return.

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7. Trump government is as clumsy in railroading

as it is with everything else.