Kilmar Abrego Garcia fights deportation to Liberia after criminal charges dropped

Kilmar Abrego Garcia Fights Deportation to Liberia

Just have a minute? Here are the top stories you need to know about immigration. This summary was featured in Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter. You can subscribe to receive it in your inbox three times per week here. Around the U.S. Kilmar Abrego Garcia fights deportation to Liberia after criminal charges dropped: The Maryland resident who was wrongly deported to El Salvador’s brutal megaprison CECOT last year has filed a petition to be rem…

Kilmar Abrego Garcia fights deportation to Liberia after criminal charges dropped

WASHINGTON — Following a dismissal of criminal charges the Trump administration lodged against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the wrongly deported Maryland resident Thursday pressed a federal judge to prevent his removal to any country that is not Costa Rica, which has agreed to accept him as a refugee.  The filing in the federal District Court for the District of Maryland comes after a federal judge in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 22 dismissed the U.S. …