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U.S. Names Liberia for Abrego Garcia’s Removal as Soon as Oct. 31

A federal judge’s order currently blocks his removal pending active litigation.

Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador made him a symbol of U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies, appears for a check-in at the ICE Baltimore field office three days after his release from criminal custody in Tennessee, in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
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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)
Kilmar Abrego Garcia (C) and his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura (Center Right) enter a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office on Aug. 25, 2025, in Baltimore, Maryland. The U.S. Government is threatening to deport Garcia, a Maryland construction worker from El Salvador, to Uganda after he rejected a plea deal to be charged with Human Smuggling and deported to Costa Rica. Earlier this year Garcia was wrongfully deported to a notorious anti-terrorism prison CECOT in El Salvador. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/TNS)

Overview

  • Justice Department lawyers told a Maryland court that Liberia has agreed to receive Kilmar Abrego Garcia and said removal could occur as early as Oct. 31 after receiving diplomatic assurances on his treatment.
  • U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has an order in place barring his immediate deportation, and Abrego Garcia remains in ICE custody in Pennsylvania.
  • The administration previously sought to send him to Uganda, Eswatini and Ghana, but officials from those countries declined; his attorneys say Costa Rica has agreed to accept him as a refugee.
  • Prosecutors argue Liberia was not on Abrego Garcia’s list of countries where he fears persecution or torture, while his lawyers call the plan punitive and unlawful.
  • A Tennessee federal judge found a realistic likelihood the criminal case may be vindictive and authorized discovery, with a hearing set in early November.