Kilmar Abrego Garcia will be deported once more by the Trump administration, this time to Uganda. He has turned down Costa Rica’s offer. The threat of deportation means he will remain incarcerated and enter a guilty plea to the allegations of human smuggling.
He was scheduled to be freed from the Tennessee jail the next day when this deportation scheme was made public. The Salvadoran national is awaiting trial in Maryland and has refused to have his jail sentence extended. His lawyers broke the awful news to him when he was reunited with his family.
On Monday, he must appear at the immigration office. In March, when Trump’s crackdown on immigrants was intensifying, Garcia was mistakenly deported.
Breaking: Kilmar Abrego Garcia turned down a plea agreement in his criminal case, and Trump now intends to deport him to Uganda. Just yesterday, he was happily reunited with his family.pH5o7oI7kJ @meidastouchpic.twitter.com
August 23, 2025, Dina Sayegh Doll (@askDinaDoll)
The Trump administration then reinstated him in June.Despite not being permitted to, Garcia, who was born and raised in El Salvador and arrived in the United States at the age of sixteen, has been residing here as a citizen.
He was an MS-13 member, according to the records, but he has not been charged. In addition, he has denied any involvement with the gang. He was in the notoriously torture-filled El Salvador prison. However, the government refuted these allegations.
Although the Trump administration acknowledged their error in transporting him there, they later brought him back and arrested him once more on suspicion of people smuggling. He has so far entered a not guilty plea and requested that the charges be dropped.
After Kilmar Abrego Garcia refused to be transported to Costa Rica in exchange for staying in jail and entering a guilty plea to charges of human smuggling, immigration officials said in a court filing on Saturday that they want to deport him to Uganda.DnpPCWDXL6: https://t.co/Dnp
PBS News August 23, 2025 (@NewsHour)
He claims that because he contested his deportation, the allegations are an attempt to punish him. Furthermore, the fear of deportation may be advantageous to him because it indicates that they are preparing their next course of action.
The Trump administration is reacting to his release with indignation, according to the filing. Additionally, he has remained in custody despite being eligible for pretrial release because his lawyers were afraid he would be deported.
The possibility of being deported to Uganda remains, and he is powerless to defend himself, so those concerns are becoming a reality. Garcia currently has time before being deported because he has a separate case in Maryland that gives him time to plan his defense.
