Kilmar Abrego Garcia turns himself in to immigration authorities

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Washington — Kilmar Abrego Garcia was taken into custody Monday by migration authorities following his merchandise from transgression custody past week, his lawyer said.

Abrego Garcia, a autochthonal of El Salvador, was mistakenly deported to El Salvador successful March and held successful a notorious Salvadoran situation for months earlier being returned to the U.S. successful June wherever helium was jailed. A justice ruled that helium should beryllium released from detention up of a proceedings acceptable for January connected national quality smuggling charges.

Abrego Garcia was released from pre-trial detention connected Friday. In a ineligible filing Saturday, Abrego Garcia's lawyers said Abrego Gracia was offered a plea woody that included deportation to Costa Rica, which helium declined.

He arrived astatine the ICE installation connected Monday greeting to cheque in, speaking successful Spanish to supporters who had gathered successful a amusement of enactment extracurricular of the facility.

CBS News reported Saturday that hours aft helium was released, his attorneys were sent a court-required announcement of his imaginable deportation to Uganda.

Abrego Garcia, who entered the state illegally, was directed to look astatine an Immigration and Customs Enforcement tract bureau successful Baltimore connected Monday morning. The Department of Homeland Security claims Abrego Garcia is simply a subordinate of the MS-13 gang, which his household denies.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat who traveled to El Salvador to advocator for the instrumentality of Abrego Garcia earlier this year, met with him Sunday. Van Hollen said successful a connection Sunday that helium was gladsome to "welcome him backmost to Maryland aft what has been a agelong and torturous nightmare."

"The national courts and nationalist outcry forced the Administration to bring Ábrego García backmost to Maryland, but Trump's cronies proceed to prevarication astir the facts successful his lawsuit and they are engaged successful a malicious maltreatment of powerfulness arsenic they endanger to deport him to Uganda — to artifact his accidental to support himself against the caller charges they brought," Van Hollen said. "As I told Kilmar and his woman Jennifer, we volition enactment successful this combat for justness and owed process due to the fact that if his rights are denied, the rights of everyone other are enactment astatine risk."

An migration justice ruled successful 2019 that Abrego Garcia whitethorn not beryllium deported to El Salvador due to the fact that helium feared persecution by section gangs successful the Central American country. But the authorities could legally question Abrego Garcia's deportation to different country, specified arsenic Uganda.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore advocated for owed process for Abrego Garcia connected Sunday, saying connected "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that "I conscionable simply privation a tribunal and a justice to determine what is going to beryllium the aboriginal destiny of this lawsuit and each cases similar this, and not simply the President of the United States oregon the caput of homeland information who is trying to beryllium judge, juror, authoritative and executioner wrong this case."

Camilo Montoya-Galvez contributed to this report.