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   From: tristan@gmx.com   
      
   Attorneys for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a Friday   
   letter that they intend to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the African   
   nation of Eswatini after he expressed a fear of deportation to Uganda.   
      
   The letter from ICE to Abrego Garcia’s attorneys was earlier reported by   
   Fox News. It states that his fear of persecution or torture in Uganda is   
   “hard to take seriously, especially given that you have claimed (through   
   your attorneys) that you fear persecution or torture in at least 22   
   different countries. ...Nonetheless, we hereby notify you that your new   
   country of removal is Eswatini.”   
      
   Eswatini’s government spokesperson told The Associated Press on Saturday   
   that it had no received no communication regarding Abrego Garcia’s   
   transfer there.   
      
   The Salvadoran man lived in Maryland for more than a decade before he   
   was mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year. That set off a   
   series of contentious court battles that have turned his case into a   
   test of the limits of President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration   
   policies.   
      
   Although Abrego Garcia immigrated to the U.S. illegally around the year   
   2011, when he was a teenager, he has an American wife and child. A 2019   
   immigration court order barred his deportation to his native El   
   Salvador, finding he had a credible fear of threats from gangs there. He   
   was deported anyway in March — in what a government attorney said was an   
   administrative error — and held in the country’s notorious Terrorism   
   Confinement Center.   
      
   Facing a court order, the Trump administration returned him to the U.S.   
   in June only to charge him with human smuggling based on a 2022 traffic   
   stop in Tennessee. While that court case is ongoing, ICE now seeks to   
   deport him again. For his part, Abrego Garcia is requesting asylum in   
   the United States.   
      
      
   He was denied asylum in 2019 because his request came more than a year   
   after he arrived in the U.S., his attorney Simon Sandoval-Mosenberg has   
   said. Since he was deported and has now re-entered the U.S., the   
   attorney said he is now eligible for asylum.   
      
   “If Mr. Abrego Garcia is allowed a fair trial in immigration court,   
   there’s no way he’s not going to prevail on his claim,” he said in an   
   emailed statement.   
      
   As part of his asylum claim, Abrego Garcia expressed a fear of   
   deportation to Uganda and “nearly two dozen” other countries, according   
   an ICE court filing in opposition to reopening his asylum case. That   
   Thursday filing also states that if the case is reopened, the 2019 order   
   barring his deportation to El Salvador would become void and the   
   government would pursue his removal to that country.   
      
   https://apnews.com/article/kilmar-abrego-garcia-uganda-eswatini-   
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