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Who is Kilmar Ábrego García and why has his case become a lightning rod for Trump’s immigration crackdown?

Kilmar Abrego Garcia wearing a T-shirt and baseball cap
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a migrant from El Salvador, was wrongfully deported from the US in March and is now threatened with deportation to Uganda.
Photograph: Abrego Garcia Family/Reuters

The Trump administration has said it plans to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Uganda, months after he was mistakenly sent to El Salvador, in a case that has become a flashpoint in the president’s wider crackdown on immigration.

In a filing, lawyers for Ábrego asked the courts to dismiss the case against him on grounds that it is a vindictive attempt to punish him for challenging his initial deportation to El Salvador.

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