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Kilmar Abrego Garcia to seek asylum in the US in bid to avoid deportation

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, right, and his brother Cesar Abrego Garcia, centre, arrive at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 25 [Stephanie Scarbrough/AP Photo]

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose wrongful deportation made him a symbol of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration, wishes to seek asylum in the United States.

Lawyers for Abrego Garcia told a judge on Wednesday that the 30-year-old fears persecution and torture should the Trump administration succeed in deporting him to Uganda, as it plans to do.

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