Kilmar Abrego Garcia Case Moves Slowly

Kilmar Abrego Garcia Case Moves Slowly
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The Courthouse News Service

has the latest developments in the slow-moving Kilmar Abrego Garcia case as the U.S. government seeks to remove him to somewhere, anywhere. He is in detention as the case proceeds. The governments of Eswatini, Ghana, and Uganda have declined to receive Abrego Garcia. "Andrew Rossman, a lawyer with the firm Quinn Emanuel and part of Ábrego García’s legal team, told [the district court] that the government’s purported efforts to deport him to Eswatini, Uganda or (most recently) Ghana are clear efforts to troll and punish him for challenging his wrongful removal to El Salvador." The Supreme Court earlier this year ordered the U.S. government to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return to the United States.

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