Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man the Trump administration wrongfully deported in March then brought back to the U.S. to face criminal charges, cannot be moved again or deported from the U.S. in the near future, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
The order comes as the Trump administration has said it intends to deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda, a threat his lawyers allege is part of a coercive negotiating tactic to get the immigrant to either plead guilty to criminal smuggling charges, which he denies, or leave the country to a nation where he doesn’t speak the language or have any ties.
