Here’s what might happen at Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s ICE check-in

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man who, according to the government, was wrongly expelled to a notorious prison in Salvador, will meet immigration officials on Monday under the imminent threat of a second expulsion, this time in Uganda.

The case of Abrego – a flash point in the repression of Trump administrations against immigration – is now at a large crossroads.

He was released from the Federal Conditional Liberation Guard on Friday and had a meeting in tears with his family After almost half an interval.

But the Trump administration has doubled his determination to deport him, alleging that he is a member of the MS -13 violent gang – an assertion that his lawyers have rejected several times.

Abrego had been expelled in March in what the White House called an “administrative error” and after a tedious legal saga, he was sent back to the United States in June. But he was immediately detained again, this time on accusations of human smuggling in Tennessee. He pleaded not guilty of these accusations.

A few minutes after his release, the immigration authorities informed Abrego that they intended to deport him to Uganda. In addition, the Trump administration offered him a plea agreement which would ensure his possible deportation to Costa Rica.

Friday evening, the government informed Abrego that he had until the “first thing” on Monday morning to accept a plea in exchange for expulsion at Costa Rica “, or this offer will be outside the table forever,” wrote the lawyers of Abrego in a file in the context of their efforts to obtain the expenses in the abandoned Tennessee.

Here’s how Monday’s appointment can take place:

Monday ice cream recording

Abrego will have a recording with immigration and customs application in Baltimore on Monday as part of the conditions of his release of the federal care in parole.

As a rule, such an ice registration is a brief meeting with an ICE application and dismissal operations officer to examine cases, provide updates and confirm where a person lives. Usually a person is released until the next planned registration.

But ABREGO’s lawyers told NBC News that they expect that it would be placed in police custody during the registration, given the advice of the Trump administration of its intention to deport it.

A judge ruled in July that the government was to provide 72 hours notice, excluding weekends, if it intends to deport Abrego to a third country, which the Ministry of Justice provided on Friday afternoon.

ABREGO lawyers said he had illegally immigrated to the United States at the age of 16 to join his brother in Maryland to escape gangdor violence in Salvador.

His expulsion to El Salvador violated an order from the 2019 court which protected him from his deportation to his country of origin because of fear that he is persecuted by violent gangs. But this order does not prevent its expulsion to another country.

What can happen from here?

Several paths could take place from here: Abrego could conclude the advocacy agreement and possibly be expelled to Costa Rica where he could refuse and be expelled in Uganda, or his lawyers could fight Uganda as an option of deportation.

If Abrego does not change his plea in the federal case of Tennessee, he could be expelled in Uganda on Wednesday.

However, Abrego could not face the criminal accusations of human trafficking brought against him by the Ministry of Justice in this case if he is dismissed from his functions of the country. His trial is scheduled for January in Nashville.

Last week, Uganda concluded an agreement with the United States to take expelled migrants, as long as it has no criminal record and are not unaccompanied minors. The Ugandan Foreign Ministry said that Uganda prefers that migrants sent African nationalities there.

Abrego lawyers could also try to prevent his expulsion in Uganda and try to convince an immigration judge within 72 hours that he is likely to undergo persecution or torture there. An immigration judge should agree to prevent his expulsion in Uganda.

On Saturday, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of the lawyers of Abrego, accused the government of “punishing” Abrego to “exercise its constitutional rights”.

“It is absurd that they would send him to Africa, in a country where he does not even speak the language, a country with documented violations of human rights, when there are so many other options. This family has suffered sufficiently,” said Sandoval-Moshenberg outside the home of Abrego’s brother.

He said they intended to “fight teeth and nails” against expulsion in Uganda, South Sudan, Libya and “any other completely ridiculous country they can find”.

What if Abrego takes an agreement on advocacy?

Alternatively, Abrego could adopt a plea that the Trump administration has offered.

This agreement would force him to plead guilty to the two charges of the criminal indictment against him in Tennessee, to serve time and then to be expelled.

If Abrego pleads guilty or was condemned by a jury, the accusations bear a sentence of up to 10 years in federal prison. In either scenarios, the American district judge Wesley Crenshaw in Nashville would determine how long it would serve.

If he was finally expelled to Costa Rica, Abrego would be welcomed as a refugee and lived as a free man, the Costa Rican government declared in a letter of the lawyers of Abrego submitted to the Court in the context of the file in the Tennessee case.

In the file, the lawyer Sean Hecker said that the Ministry of Justice, internal security and ice “used their collective powers to force Mr. Abrego to choose between a guilt plea followed by relative security or an interpretation in Uganda, where his security and his freedom would be threatened.”

Sandoval-Moshenberg called the Costa Rica plea offer, a “fairly reasonable” offer on Saturday, saying: “Costa Rica makes sense. It is a Spanish -speaking country. It is immediately for the United States. His family can visit him easily. ”

The case of Abrego sparked a heated debate and a meticulous examination of immigration policies of the Trump administration, including the deportation race – sometimes without regular procedure – aggressive ice raids and sordid detention conditions.