{"id":169469,"date":"2025-08-23T15:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169469\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:37:09","slug":"us-seeks-to-deport-kilmar-abrego-garcia-to-uganda-after-he-refused-plea-offer-court-filing-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169469\/","title":{"rendered":"US seeks to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he refused plea offer, court filing shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Immigration officials said they intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia<\/a> to Uganda, after he declined an offer to be sent to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to human smuggling charges, according to a Saturday court filing.<\/p>\n

The Costa Rica offer came late Thursday, after it was clear that the Salvadoran national would likely be released from a Tennessee jail<\/a> the following day. Abrego Garcia declined to extend his stay in jail and was released on Friday to await trial in Maryland with his family. Later that day, the Department of Homeland Security notified his attorneys that he would be deported to Uganda and should report to immigration authorities on Monday. <\/p>\n

His attorneys declined to comment on whether the plea offer had been formally rescinded. The brief they filed only said that Abrego Garcia had declined one part of the offer \u2014 to remain in jail \u2014 and that his attorneys would \u201ccommunicate the government\u2019s proposal to Mr. Abrego.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abrego Garcia\u2019s case became a flashpoint<\/a> in President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration agenda after he was mistakenly deported in March. Facing a court order, the Trump administration brought him back to the U.S. in June, only to detain him on human smuggling charges.<\/p>\n

He has pleaded not guilty and has asked the judge to dismiss the case, claiming that it is an attempt to punish him for challenging his deportation to El Salvador<\/a>. The Saturday filing came as a supplement to that motion to dismiss, stating that the threat to deport him to Uganda is more proof that the prosecution is vindictive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government immediately responded to Mr. Abrego\u2019s release with outrage,\u201d the filing reads. \u201cDespite having requested and received assurances from the government of Costa Rica that Mr. Abrego would be accepted there, within minutes of his release from pretrial custody, an ICE representative informed Mr. Abrego\u2019s counsel that the government intended to deport Mr. Abrego to Uganda and ordered him to report to ICE\u2019s Baltimore Field Office Monday morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Abrego Garcia was deemed eligible for pretrial release, he had remained in jail<\/a> at the request of his attorneys, who feared the Republican administration could try to immediately deport him again<\/a> if he were freed. Those fears were somewhat allayed by a recent ruling<\/a> in a separate case in Maryland, which requires immigration officials to allow Abrego Garcia time to mount a defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Immigration officials said they intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, after he…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[1613,8898,356,69,57,409,8004,1612,362,564,8006,50,80,2938,1229,6066,8007,3676,2065,61,22770,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-169469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-central-america","10":"tag-costa-rica","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-immigration","15":"tag-kilmar-abrego-garcia","16":"tag-latin-america","17":"tag-legal-proceedings","18":"tag-maryland","19":"tag-md-state-wire","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-prisons","23":"tag-tennessee","24":"tag-tn-state-wire","25":"tag-trials","26":"tag-u-s-department-of-homeland-security","27":"tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","28":"tag-u-s-news","29":"tag-uganda","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-unitedstates","32":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115078827082386575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}