Kilmar Abrego Garcia taken into ICE custody, lawyer says

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-ice-custody-deportation/

Washington — Kilmar Abrego Garcia was taken into custody Monday by immigration authorities following his release from criminal custody last week, his lawyer said.

"As he was leaving the jail in Tennessee on Friday he'd been given a notice requiring him to check in at 8 a.m. this morning," Abrego Garcia's attorney, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg said. "The notice stated that the reason was interview — clearly that was false."

Sandoval-Moshenberg said Abrego Garcia had filed a new lawsuit challenging his confinement and deportation to any country "unless and until he had a fair trial in an immigration court, as well as his full appeal rights."

Sandoval-Moshenberg said the ICE officer did not answer when asked about the reason for Abrego Garcia's detention and would not say which detention center he would be taken to or commit to providing paperwork.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Bet he'll be on a flight to Uganda just after lunchtime.

[EarlG]

2. How much time and money has been spent on breaking up just this ONE American family?

I know Kilmar Abrego Garcia isn't a US citizen, but his wife and kids are. So now either the whole family will have to move to Uganda if they want to stay together, or they'll just be broken up and those American kids will grow up without a dad.

Bear in mind that Abrego Garcia's immigration status allowed him to live and work legally in the US before Trump came into office. Trump is just destroying these people's lives for his own sick amusement.

[Arazi]

8. I doubt he stays in Uganda. I presume he'll seek asylum elsewhere

Even if he’s removed to Uganda, my presumption is the family settles somewhere else.

It certainly won’t be the US though. Ever.

A huge waste of time and resources just to make an example of this guy after ICE incompetence was exposed when they fucked up.

[UTUSN]

3. Note to ahole MAGAts: It's about Due Process for all, not us coddling individual him.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Kilmar Abrego Garcia files habeas petition over his recent detention and impending deportation.

Link to tweet

[UTUSN]

5. Note to magats

Dear MAGAts: It's about Due Process for ALL of us, including you - and the way your Dear Leader is going at it you might need it soon - not about Libs coddling this one individual.

[intheflow]

10. And Due Process is for EVERY charge against him.

I hope Xinis asks the government how much in taxpayers’ money has been spent on hounding and torturing this guy and his family.

[UTUSN]

11. Ty. And at the MAGAt tabloids they've been slamming about his Defense lawyers being paid by

govt/public money. The answer: Way not as much as KRASNOV's golfing and grifting off the office.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Injunction is in place

NEW: The Maryland disctrict court automatically enjoins the govt from removing Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the US until 4 p.m. Wednesday (at least for now) as it prepares to hear arguments. (This is the court’s standard policy in the Trump era.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

— Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) 2025-08-25T12:55:51.209Z

[sinkingfeeling]

7. I f@*king hate Trump and his entire regime.

[Nanjeanne]

9. Disgraceful. I don't recognize this country and anyone believing this is just politics as usual is nuts.

[In It to Win It]

12. He might have a case for asylumin Canada. The US gov is using every bit of power they have to wear him down

and make him the example.

[Solly Mack]

13. ...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Deadline: Legal Blog-Abrego's criminal case was always a farce. The government's latest actions show why

Attorney General Pam Bondi previously touted the importance of Abrego’s criminal charges. Now the government wants to deport him to Uganda.

Abrego’s criminal case was always a farce. The government’s latest actions show why.
Attorney General Pam Bondi previously touted the importance of Abrego’s criminal charges. Now the government wants to deport him to Uganda.
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

— Nate (@palm7x.bsky.social) 2025-08-25T14:33:01.009Z

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/kilmar-abrego-garcia-criminal-case-pam-bondi-rcna226934

But a court filing from Abrego’s lawyers over the weekend shows that the administration has taken its vengeance to a new level. According to the filing, on Thursday — the day before he would be released — the government told his counsel that if he agreed to stay in custody and plead guilty, then he could be deported to Costa Rica after he serves whatever sentence the court would impose. Like El Salvador, Costa Rica is a Spanish-speaking country in Central America.....

After his release, an immigration official said the government now wants to deport him to the African nation of Uganda. He was ordered to report to a Baltimore immigration office on Monday morning and was given until then either to accept the Costa Rica deal “or else that offer will be off the table forever,” Abrego’s lawyers wrote in the Saturday filing......

I should note that in criminal cases across the country — ones you’ve never heard of and never will — prosecutors make plea offers that force defendants to make choices that would put them in bad situations immediately to avoid worse fates down the line. Against that backdrop, it’s unsurprising that most cases don’t go to trial. In the ones that do, defendants who are convicted face greater punishment than they would have faced had they pleaded guilty, a phenomenon that’s been called “the trial penalty.” So at least from the defense’s vantage point, there’s an element of legalized coercion baked into the system.

In that light, it’s understandable that not everyone sees American justice as a righteous concept to begin with. But it can always be further degraded.

The Trump administration seems hellbent on such degradation. Having embarrassed itself with the illegal removal of Abrego and failure to quickly fix it, it’s now acting as a sort of dystopian travel agent in a desperate bid to avoid a criminal case that it didn’t have to bring in the first place.

Rather than ensuring that Abrego “face justice,” as Bondi proclaimed upon his U.S. return, the government appears to be trying to save face. No matter what happens next, that won’t be possible in the eyes of people who’ve been paying attention. The damage to American justice has been done.