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FILE - Kilmar Abrego Garcia joins supporters in a protest rally outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)

US says it now plans to deport Abrego Garcia to Liberia as soon as Oct. 31

The U.S. government now plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia. A statement from his immigration attorneys on Friday that calls the plan “punitive, cruel, and unconstitutional.” The Salvadoran national’s case has become a magnet for opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies since he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. Since his return to the U.S. in June, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been seeking to deport him to a series of African countries. The latest filing says he could be deported as early as Oct. 31. A federal lawsuit claims the administration is illegally using deportation to punish him for the embarrassment of its earlier mistake.

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