Judge to weigh government’s effort to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia

October 6, 2026 / 9:34 AM EDT / CBS News

Washington — The fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man wrongfully deported by the Trump administration last year, will again be argued in court on Tuesday when his legal team asks a federal judge to block his deportation to Liberia, the latest country where the administration has attempted to send him in his ongoing legal saga.

Abrego Garcia, who had been living in Maryland with his family, was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March 2025, despite a judge's 2019 order that blocked his deportation to the country on the grounds that he could be harmed by local gangs. The Trump administration had said Abrego Garcia was a member of the gang MS-13, which he has denied.

He was initially held at the Salvadoran mega-prison CECOT and was eventually returned to the U.S. in June 2025 to face criminal human smuggling charges.

In March, the Trump administration said that it was ready to deport Abrego Garcia to Liberia, and asked U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland to dissolve her order that is currently blocking that, or any other removal of Abrego Garcia, from happening.

In court filings, the…

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