ICE detains Kilmar Garcia at Maryland office, faces removal to Uganda | US immigration crackdown

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the immigrant who was wrongfully expelled to El Salvador in March and then brought back to face criminal charges, was detained again Monday after the administration indicated that it planned to deport him to Uganda, his lawyer said. The move, at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Baltimore, came only three days after he was freed from custody in the criminal case that was filed against him in U.S. District Court in Nashville, Tennessee. Over the weekend, his lawyers accused the Trump administration of seeking to "coerce" a guilty plea from him on the charges of human smuggling that were brought against him in an indictment in June. The lawyers said the administration had promised to send him to Costa Rica, where he could live freely as a legal resident, if he pleaded to the charges and agreed to serve whatever prison sentence he eventually received. Otherwise, the lawyers said, Trump officials said they would deport Abrego Garcia "halfway across the world" to Uganda, where, the lawyers said, "his safety and liberty would be under threat."