Kilmar Abrego Garcia<\/a> while an injunction barring his deportation remains in place.<\/p>\nThe demand from District Judge Paula Xinis on Monday comes after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) filed a notice last week of a plan to deport Abrego Garcia to the West African nation of Liberia.<\/p>\n
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She asked why the government is not instead deporting Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, a Salvadoran man living in the United States, where he has said he is willing to go because the government there has promised he would be welcomed as a legal immigrant and not re-deported to El Salvador.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny insight you can shed on why we\u2019re continuing this hearing when you could deport him to a third country tomorrow?\u201d Xinis asked government lawyers.<\/p>\n
Abrego Garcia was wrongfully deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration March, in violation of a 2019 court order barring him from being sent back to his homeland.<\/p>\n
He was returned to the US under a judge\u2019s order in June, but swiftly charged with human smuggling in Tennessee. He is seeking dismissal of that case.<\/p>\n
Administration officials have repeatedly accused Abrego Garcia of being a member of the MS-13 gang, a claim that has never been proven in court.<\/p>\n
Abrego Garcia\u2019s lawyers have said he is being targeted for political retribution.<\/p>\n
Responding to the plan to deport Abrego Garcia to Liberia, lawyer Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg called the move \u201ccruel and unconstitutional\u201d. He noted that Abrego Garcia has no ties to the country.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration has repeatedly sought to deport individuals unable to be sent to their homelands to so-called third countries. Advocacy groups have argued that the deportations violate due process rights and that immigrants are being sent to countries with long histories of human rights violations.<\/p>\n
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