Baltimore-Kilmar Abrego García, who met with his family last week after 160 days apart after his confusion wrong to El Salvador, was put in ice custody on Monday after a check-in immigration, said his lawyer.
The check-in with the application of immigration and customs of the United States in Baltimore was part of the conditions of his Friday of Federal Custody on probation.
While such meetings are usually routine and are intended for case updates, Abrego’s lawyers said they expected them to take him to ice custody during the check-in after the Trump administration announced during the weekend his intention to deport him to Uganda.
“There was no need to bring him to the arrest of ice … the only reason he was punished was to punish him,” for using his constitutional right to speak and fight against the procedures, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of Abrego’s lawyers, said on Monday morning.
He said the lawyers asked ICE officers why Abrego was arrested and the officer did not respond. ICE officers would also not give information about where Abrego is going, said Sandoval-Moshenberg.
Abrego spoke at a press conference before heading to his appointment of ICE on Monday morning, surrounded by family, followers, religious leaders and his legal team, who requested their freedom.
“My name is Kilmar Abrego García, and I want you to remember this, remember that I am free and that I could meet with my family,” he said in Spanish before a translator was repeated in English.
“This was a miracle. Thank God and thanks to the community,” added Abrego. “I want to thank each and every one of you who marched, raise your voices, never stop praying and continue fighting in my name.”
It is the last movement of the government to start Abrego from the country after he was deported by mistake to El Salvador in March, in violation of a 2019 court order. After a lot of legal resistance, Abrego was returned to the United States in June and hit with Human smuggling positions of Tennessee, of which he declared himself innocent.
The Trump administration has repeatedly accused Abrego of being a member of a gang starts from the famous MS-13, which his lawyers have denied. Abrego’s lawyers have said that they illegally emigrated to the United States when he was 16 to join his brother in Maryland to escape the violence of gangs in El Salvador.
The Trump administration offered Abrego a guilt agreement last week, their lawyers said in a Saturday court that was part of their efforts so that charges in Tennessee fall on what they consider a “vindictive” and “selective” prosecution.
If you declare the federal positions of Tennessee and meet time, it can be deported to Costa Rica. The Costa Rican government said it would live as a free man there, according to the presentation.
Before Monday morning, Sandoval-Moshenberg said that his client would not take the guilt since Abrego “will not accept charges of which he is not guilty.” This means that the agreement to be deported to Costa Rica could be out of the table.
Abrego’s lawyers rejected the apparent attempt of the Trump administration of strong arms.
“What they are trying to do here is to punish it. They are trying to use the deportation system, and specifically, they are trying to use which country they are planning to deport it as a means to punish it for exercising their constitutional rights,” said Sandoval-Moshenberg on Saturday outside Abrego’s house in Maryland’s house.
Gary Groumbach reported from Baltimore, Marlene Lenthang from Los Angeles and Rebecca Cohen in New York.
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