Overview

• ICE transferred Abrego Garcia on Friday from Farmville, Va., to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, Pa., a move confirmed by DHS officials and court filings.
• ICE has said the Pennsylvania site will allow longer legal visits and laptop access, but defense lawyers say travel is harder for their Nashville and New York teams and counsel access remains uncertain.
• In filings, the defense cited reports of assaults, inadequate medical care, insufficient food, and an August suicide at Moshannon, a GEO Group facility that advocates and journalists have flagged for crowding and reduced oversight.
• Abrego Garcia, 30, was wrongly deported to El Salvador in March and returned in June; he now faces a two-count human-smuggling case in Tennessee and has pleaded not guilty.
• The administration continues to pursue his removal, including prior references to third-country deportations such as Uganda or Eswatini, while DHS publicly labels him an MS-13 member—an allegation he and his family deny.