US govt wants migrant targeted in crackdown deported to Uganda: lawyers
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US government intends to deport a Salvadoran man at ground zero of President Donald Trump’s war on illegal immigration to Uganda next week, his lawyers said Saturday.
In a filing, the lawyers asked courts to dismiss the case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia on grounds that it is a vindictive attempt to punish him for challenging his initial deportation to El Salvador.
The attempt to deport Garcia to far-flung Uganda in East Africa adds a dramatic new twist to a saga that became a test case for Trump’s harsh crackdown on illegal immigration — and, critics say, his trampling of the law.
His lawyers’ filing was an addition to an earlier one asking judges to dismiss the case.
Word of the new press to deport him came a day after he was freed and allowed to go home to Maryland pending trial on human smuggling charges.
This followed a torturous saga in which he was mistakenly deported to a notoriously rough prison.
