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U.S. Plans Abrego Garcia Removal to Liberia by Oct. 31

A Maryland judge has barred removal pending ongoing court cases.

Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador made him a symbol of U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies, appears for a check-in at the ICE Baltimore field office three days after his release from criminal custody in Tennessee, in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
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FILE - Kilmar Abrego Garcia joins supporters in a protest rally outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)
Kilmar Abrego Garcia (C) and his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura (Center Right) enter a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office on Aug. 25, 2025, in Baltimore, Maryland. The U.S. Government is threatening to deport Garcia, a Maryland construction worker from El Salvador, to Uganda after he rejected a plea deal to be charged with Human Smuggling and deported to Costa Rica. Earlier this year Garcia was wrongfully deported to a notorious anti-terrorism prison CECOT in El Salvador. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/TNS)

Overview

  • Justice Department lawyers told a federal court that Liberia agreed to accept Kilmar Abrego Garcia and said DHS received diplomatic assurances on his treatment, with removal possible as soon as Oct. 31.
  • U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has blocked his immediate removal, and Abrego Garcia remains in ICE custody in Pennsylvania as litigation continues.
  • Earlier efforts to send him to Uganda, Eswatini and Ghana fell through, and his attorneys say Costa Rica has offered to receive him as a refugee and pledged not to return him to El Salvador.
  • Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported to El Salvador in March despite a 2019 protection order, was returned to the U.S. in June, and has pleaded not guilty to human-smuggling charges in Tennessee.
  • A Tennessee judge found a realistic likelihood of vindictive prosecution and set a hearing for early November, as defense lawyers seek to question senior DOJ officials about charging decisions.