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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump team won’t let Kilmar Abrego Garcia self deport. They hope to force him to an African nation he’s never visited

Donald Trump’s administration has spent several months trying to criminally prosecute Kilmar Abrego Garcia after being forced to bring the wrongly deported Salvadoran immigrant back to the U.S. last year.

But the government has, at the same time, tried to deport him to at least five different countries, including four in Africa, before his criminal case has even reached a trial in a saga that has been a lightning rod in the president’s mass deportation efforts.

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