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ARTICLE VIEW:
Abrego Garcia renews bid for asylum as fight over Trump admin’s
attempt to re-deport him heats up
By Devan Cole, CNN
Updated:
5:20 PM EDT, Tue August 26, 2025
Source: CNN
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El
Salvador and later brought back to the US to face federal criminal
charges, has renewed his bid for asylum in the United States as the
Trump administration’s effort to deport him to Uganda intensifies.
The request Monday to revisit his asylum application could have the
impact of further delaying a potential deportation by the
administration. Should an immigration judge grant the request to
revisit his asylum claims, officials would be barred under federal law
from removing him from the US pending resolution of his renewed asylum
application.
Justice Department attorneys have separately acknowledged in court
papers that they would let Abrego Garcia’s request to revisit his
asylum claims play out before they proceed with deporting him.
Officials are already barred from deporting him for now under other
court-imposed orders.
“If the motion is granted then it’s been a sea change. We’re
literally in a different ocean,” a source familiar with Abrego
Garcia’s case told CNN.
Being granted asylum by an immigration judge would have the benefit of
allowing Abrego Garcia to remain in the US.
Abrego Garcia, who fled El Salvador years ago to escape gang violence,
first applied for asylum in the US in 2019. But an immigration judge
denied the application that year, ruling that since he hadn’t filed
it within 12 months of entering the US in 2012, it couldn’t be
granted.
But the judge did grant Abrego Garcia what’s known as a withholding
of removal, which was intended to prohibit officials from deporting him
back to El Salvador. That order was violated earlier this year when
Abrego Garcia, whom Trump administration officials have accused of
being a member of the gang MS-13, was sent by US officials to a
mega-prison in El Salvador, where his attorneys say he was tortured.
He was brought back to the US in June to face federal human smuggling
charges, and the Trump administration has said in recent days that it
wants to re-deport him, this time to a third country, such as Uganda.
Those plans prompted a that is meant to slow down the
administration’s efforts and ensure his due process rights aren’t
violated again by immigration officials.
A scheduling hearing in that case is set for Wednesday morning.
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