US EditionKilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers say he wants to seek asylum in the United States
- Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 30-year-old from El Salvador, was taken into custody by U.S. immigration authorities in Baltimore shortly after his release from a jail in Tennessee in 2025.
- Garcia had been denied asylum by a U.S. immigration judge in 2019 due to credible gang-related violence threats, but was granted withholding of removal preventing deportation to El Salvador.
- In March 2025, the Trump administration removed Abrego Garcia to a well-known prison in El Salvador amid accusations of MS-13 gang involvement that he has consistently denied, before bringing him back to the U.S. in June following legal disputes.
- Garcia's lawyers filed a lawsuit in Maryland to fight his deportation to Uganda, arguing the move is punitive and that he has the right to seek asylum and contest deportation to unsafe countries; Judge Paula Xinis barred removal pending an October 6 evidentiary hearing.
- The Justice Department disagrees with the stay on Garcia's removal but will comply; Garcia intends to reopen his immigration case and seek asylum again, which under U.S. law could grant him a green card.
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Abrego Garcia requests asylum in the United States - West Hawaii Today
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran immigrant who was arrested again this week as officials sought to deport him for a second time, has asked a judge to grant him asylum, his lawyers said Wednesday. The move opens up a new legal avenue for him to remain in the United States.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia requests asylum in U.S., hoping to prevent his deportation to Uganda
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has become the face of President Donald Trump ’s hard-line immigration agenda, wants to seek asylum in the United States, his lawyers told a federal judge Wednesday. Abrego Garcia, 30, was detained Monday by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement in Baltimore after leaving a Tennessee jail…
Kilmar Abrego Garcia requests asylum in attempt to prevent deportation to Uganda
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has come to encapsulate much of President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda, wants to seek asylum in the United States, his lawyers told a federal judge Wednesday.
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Abrego Garcia requests asylum in United States
WASHINGTON — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has come to encapsulate much of President Donald Trump ’s hard-line immigration agenda, wants to seek asylum in the United States, his lawyers told a federal judge Wednesday.
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