Trump Admin Finalizes Plans To Deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia To African Nation

The Trump administration says it has brokered a deal with Liberia to accept alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia when he’s deported from the United States, according to a Friday court filing.

Abrego Garcia presented a list of 20 countries he feared deportation to, but the list didn’t include Liberia, Justice Department lawyers wrote in the filing. The Trump administration is looking to deport him as early as October 31.

Federal officials “have received diplomatic assurances regarding the treatment of third country individuals removed to Liberia from the United States and are making the final necessary arrangements for Petitioner’s removal.”

The Trump administration deported Abrego Garcia, who entered the U.S. illegally in 2011, to his native El Salvador in June, despite an “administrative error.” He was brought back to the U.S. on human smuggling charges.

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Video from a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee showed Abrego Garcia in a car packed with eight other passengers, but no luggage. The group had been traveling for days from Texas as they headed to Maryland, and officers noted that Garcia was likely “hauling these people for money, probably to Maryland.”

The van was filled with eight non-English-speaking men without licenses, save for Garcia, whose license had expired. Officers eventually released Abrego Garcia with a citation despite their suspicions.

Upon Abrego Garcia’s return, the Trump administration commenced plans to remove him to a “third country.” The U.S. tried to deport him to Uganda and, initially, Costa Rica.

But the new plan is “yet another path that feels designed to inflict maximum hardship,” Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, Abrego Garcia’s attorney, said, according to CBS News.

“Their actions are punitive, cruel and unconstitutional,” Sandoval-Moshenberg said. “Unless Liberia guarantees that it will not re-deport Mr. Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, then sending him to Liberia is no less unlawful than sending him directly to El Salvador a second time.”

Abrego Garcia’s wife received a temporary protective order against him in 2021, alleging her husband beat her on multiple occasions. She has since come to his defense as he faces a second possible deportation.

Abrego Garcia was accused of being a member of MS-13 in a Maryland police report from 2019 and in a 2018 court filing.