The US immigration judge on Wednesday was denied Asylum bid from Kilmer Abrego Garciathe case represents a partisan power struggle over immigration policy.
A Baltimore Immigration Court judge rejected an application to resume Abrego Garcia’s 2019 asylum case, but that’s not the final word. Abrego Garcia has 30 days to appeal to the Immigration Appeals Committee.
Salvador citizen I have an American wife and a child and have one I lived in Maryland For years, he originally immigrated to the United States illegally as a teenager. In 2019 he was arrested by an immigration agent. He requested asylum, but was not qualified as he had been in the country for over a year. However, the judge ruled that he could not be deported to El Salvador, where he faced danger, from the gang that targeted his family.
When he was accidentally deported to El Salvador in March, Notorious prisonhis lawsuit has become a rallying point for those who opposed President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration. Faced with a ruling from the US Supreme Court, Trump’s Republican administration returned Abrego Garcia to the United States in June, but soon accused him of human smuggling.
He faces these criminal charges in Tennessee based on the traffic stop in 2022, but US immigration and customs enforcement agencies are trying to expel him to a third country, first proposing Uganda and then Eswatini. His lawyers condemned criminal charges and deportation efforts, saying that it was an attempt to punish him in order to stand up to power.
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Loller was reported from Nashville, Tennessee.
