The legal situation surrounding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien from El Salvador, continues to rack up twists and turns. But while his Friday release from jail seemed like a big victory, a new development has completely changed the game.
Originally deported by the Trump administration to his home country in early 2025, the case immediately drew national attention. A pre-existing non-removal order became a point of legal contention, with a judge ordering Abrego Garcia returned after he had already left the United States.
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That didn't happen at the time because he was already under the authority of El Salvador, which wasn't keen to send its own citizen back to America as an illegal immigrant. Things got really interesting, though, when it was revealed that not only had Abrego Garcia allegedly beaten his wife and been a member of MS-13, but he had also had a run-in with the Tennessee Highway Patrol for alleged human smuggling. All the while, Democrats and the national press kept treating him as an innocent victim, comically labeling him as just a "Maryland father."
The Trump administration eventually decided that bringing Abrego-Garcia back to face criminal charges was the right move, and on Friday, a Tennessee judge decided to release the illegal immigrant back to Maryland on bail. As it turns out, petitioning the court for release appears to have been a big mistake.
According to immigration reporter Bill Melugin, the ICE is already moving to not only detain Abrego Garcia, but to deport him to Uganda.
BREAKING: Per DHS & ICE sources, this afternoon, DHS notified Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s counsel via email that ICE may deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda “no earlier than 72 hours from now”, & ICE is also ordering him to report to ICE’s Baltimore office on Monday. Notifications below 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/CLQSm78JfX
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) August 22, 2025
I'm not sure what his lawyers thought would happen. Perhaps they got too high on their own supply and thought the Trump administration would back down, given the lengthy legal battle. That's not happening, and Abrego Garcia looks to be taking a long plane ride to Africa soon.
Why Uganda? Because it's one of the third-party countries that has agreed to take illegal immigrants from America, an operation recently blessed by the Supreme Court as legal. That means that while Abrego Garcia can't be sent back to El Salvador because he has a non-removal order for that specific country, he can be sent to Uganda.
In other words, the Trump administration appears to have stayed one step ahead again. Will Abrego Garcia show up at ICE's Baltimore office on Monday and take his medicine? I guess we'll find out. What I do know is that there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth when he's shipped off again. That's kind of the point, though, isn't it? Much of this is about deterrence, and the more the law is enforced, the less likely others are to violate it. Joe Biden is gone, and the party is over.
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