UPDATE: ICE Plans to Deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda

Yesterday, “Maryland Man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia was allowed to walk free by a federal judge.

He was released from a Tennessee jail, pending his upcoming human smuggling trial, and is now back at his home in Maryland.

However, he better not get too comfortable there…

ICE is now preparing to deport Garcia, again. This time, to Uganda.

Take a look:

🚨 BREAKING: ICE is preparing to potentially deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to UGANDA as soon as Monday, per emails DHS sent to Garcia’s counsel, obtained by @BillMelugin_

Dude is about to regret ever coming back from El Salvador 🤣🔥

This comes just hours after an activist judge… pic.twitter.com/3ABkoJ7rln

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 22, 2025

BREAKING: ICE is preparing to potentially deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to UGANDA as soon as Monday, per emails DHS sent to Garcia’s counsel, obtained by @BillMelugin_

Dude is about to regret ever coming back from El Salvador

This comes just hours after an activist judge in TN released Kilmar Abrego Garcia back on the streets.

A separate activist judge in Maryland required DHS to give Garcia’s attorneys 72 hour notice prior to any enforcement or removal actions.

The “Maryland Dad” Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from prison in Tennessee and is on his way to Maryland, where ICE will arrest him and deport him to Uganda pic.twitter.com/rwF0wOWhjp

— • Angry Frog ™ • (@angrifrog) August 23, 2025

According to a court filing, ICE gave Garcia the option of accepting a plea deal in his human smuggling case in exchange for being deported to Costa Rica after serving out his sentence.

However, Garcia refused that deal. So, Uganda, it is.

🚨 BREAKING: ICE just issued a court filing saying they plan to DEPORT Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, after he was allowed to be released by a judge…

…and Garcia DECLINED an offer to be sent to Costa Rica. So now? Uganda.

👋👋 pic.twitter.com/Ps2MfMGbWG

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 23, 2025

Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be deported to Uganda.

He should’ve taken the Costa Rica offer.

Bye Kilmar, have fun in East Africa! pic.twitter.com/oZKH3Ejq9e

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) August 23, 2025

After Garcia turned down ICE’s generous offer yesterday, they notified him that may be deported to Uganda within 72 hours.

AP News reported:

Immigration officials said they intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, after he declined an offer to be sent to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to human smuggling charges, his defense attorneys told a court Saturday.

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The Costa Rica offer came late Thursday and included a requirement that he remain in jail, according to a brief filed in Tennessee, where the criminal case was brought. After Abrego Garcia left jail on Friday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement notified his attorneys that he would be deported to Uganda and should report to immigration authorities on Monday.

Later on Friday, “the government informed Mr. Abrego that he has until first thing Monday morning — precisely when he must report to ICE’s Baltimore Field Office — to accept a plea in exchange for deportation to Costa Rica, or else that offer will be off the table forever,” his defense attorneys wrote.

They declined to say whether he is still considering the offer.

Filed along with the brief was a letter from the Costa Rican government stating that Abrego Garcia would be welcomed to that country as a legal immigrant and wouldn’t face the possibility of detention. An additional benefit of the offer would be that Costa Rica is a Spanish-speaking country, like Abrego Garcia’s native El Salvador. Abrego Garcia would only be deported to Costa Rica after serving his sentence on the smuggling charges, according to the brief.

The reason this isn’t happening faster is to comply with a previous judge’s ruling that Garcia must be given at least 72 hours notice before being deported.

ICE has also been barred from sending Garcia back to his home country in El Salvador.

NBC News has more:

Abrego “may be removed to Uganda no less than 72 hours absent weekends,” a source familiar with the case told NBC News on Saturday. It is unclear if Abrego would be imprisoned or walk free in Uganda if he is deported there.

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The father of three was accidentally deported to the El Salvador’s CECOT prison, notorious for its harsh conditions, in March, in what they called an “administrative error.”

His deportation conflicted with a withholding of removal order from 2019 that prevents Abrego’s deportation to El Salvador, where is originally from, due to concerns that he would be persecuted by violent gangs. The 2019 protective order does not bar Abrego from being deported to another country.

What do you think?

Should Kilmar Abrego Garcia be shipped off to Uganda?