The El Salvador-born migrant was ordered to report to ICE custody on Monday, and could be deported to Uganda in the future.
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Abrego Garcia, who was born in El Salvador but lived in Maryland when the Trump administration mistakenly deported him in March, was released from federal custody Friday but still faces trial on criminal charges brought by the administration during his controversial removal.
Federal prosecutors offered to send Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica if he pleaded guilty and served “any sentence imposed by the Court,” his attorneys said in a filing on Saturday—an offer they called a “last-ditch effort to forestall” his eventual release on Friday.
Abrego Garcia’s lawyers also filed a letter from Costa Rica’s ministry of public security, confirming they received an offer from the U.S., and would provide Garcia with refugee status and not seek to detain or deport him back to El Salvador.
