Kilmar Abrego Garcia expects to be detained by ICE again, attorney says [View all]
Source: NPR
Updated August 24, 2025 6:28 PM ET
The attorney for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man wrongfully deported to a notorious El Salvadoran prison and later returned to the U.S., said he expects him to be detained by immigration officials again on Monday.
Abrego Garcia, who was released from criminal custody in Tennessee on Friday while he awaits federal trial, has been told to report to an ICE detention center in Baltimore on Monday, attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg said during an interview with All Things Considered that aired on Sunday.
"I don't see any need for ICE to detain him. They've got him right now," Sandoval-Moshenberg said, saying that Abrego Garcia is being monitored electronically by the U.S. Marshals Service through a GPS ankle bracelet. "But that said, I expect that ICE will take him into detention because, well, pretty much that's what they do. They have said they're going to try to deport him."
After Abrego Garcia was released Friday, immigration officials notified his attorneys that they plan to deport him to Uganda after he rejected a plea deal to be deported to Costa Rica in exchange for pleading guilty to smuggling charges and remaining in jail, Abrego Garcia's lawyers said in a court filing on Saturday.
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