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Kilmar Abrego Garcia transferred to Pennsylvania detention facility

The transfer aims to ease legal access for Abrego, who faces new deportation claims amid disputed gang allegations, according to his attorneys and court filings.

  • On Friday, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was transferred to Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania, after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement notified his lawyers earlier that day.
  • Defense filings argued being held at Farmville Detention Center, Virginia hindered Abrego Garcia's lawyers from meeting and preparing, and attorneys sought court help resolving access burdens.
  • Attorneys cited recent reports of assaults, inadequate medical care and insufficient food at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, noting a detainee who died last month and an active investigation.
  • Prosecutors charge Abrego Garcia with human smuggling, including one count of conspiracy and one of unlawful transportation, with a hearing set for October 6.
  • After a mistaken deportation to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia returned to face new proceedings amid DHS plans to deport him to Eswatini and previous mentions of Uganda and over 20 countries.
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Abrego Garcia transferred to Pennsylvania facility, against lawyers’ wishes

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, pictured at center, was released from jail in Putnam County, Tennessee, on August 22, 2025. (John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)WASHINGTON — Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man who the Trump administration admitted to wrongly deporting in March, said over the weekend that the administration moved him from one U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Virginia to another in Pennsylvania, raising concerns ove…

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Kilmar Abrego García , who was unjustly deported from the United States to his native El Salvador and whose case became a point of conflict in President Donald Trump's immigration offensive, was transferred from a Virginia detention center to an installation in Pennsylvania. }The court records indicate that the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) notified Abrego Garcia's lawyers on Friday that he was transferred to the Moshannon Valley…

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Telemundo 20 broke the news in on Saturday, September 27, 2025.
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