Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, which has agreed to accept him for residency.

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Julie DiCaro
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So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/politics/abrego-garcia-hearing.html

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.
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October 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

— Julie DiCaro (@juliedicaro.bsky.social) 2025-10-12T20:20:40.856Z

[hlthe2b]

1. I hope it works out for him.

I honestly can't help but wonder if they'd give me residency too. Not really kidding... Every day another horror...

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. If you're retired and can prove you have a minimum passive income, you can get a visa

I think it’s around $2000-3000/mo minimum income.

I’m pretty sure that’s true of Costa Rica- there’s lots of you tube videos on the easiest places to immigrate to.

[Florida Dem]

9. Costa Rica Retirement Visa

Only $1K required. It's one of the places on my list when I put this place in my rearview mirror in a few years. It was kind of my stomping grounds when I was a younger man.

[dweller]

3. No to Costa Rica ?

Then how about Puerto Rico ?

since most repugs think that’s a foreign shithole country …


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[Deep State Witch]

4. They Don't Want Him Anywhere

Where he can get his story out. They made his deportation to Costa Rica conditional on his pleading guilty to human trafficking. If he is deported to Costa Rica, I hope that this psycho administration allows his wife and children to join him.

[in2herbs]

6. He and his lawyer should put his story on film before he is deported but not release it until he's safe. nt

[Tom Dyer]

5. This poor man and family.

He’s not a toy for ignorant cretins to salivate over and hate, but they’re doing that to human beings to prove something so wrong and cruel.

And to “win”. WIN!!!!

The saddest thing to watch The United States from here.

[Botany]

7. How much has this prosecution of Senior Garcia cosr?

Got to be > a million dollars.

[Warpy]

8. I imagine he's had quite enough of the USA

and realizes he will never be safe from that twisted, vicious troll Stephen Miller as long as Miller is infecting the government.

Costa Rica is supposed to be a good place to live.

[IbogaProject]

10. They got rid of having a standing army awhile ago

And their economy has reaped the benefits.