Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia have asked a judge to open another asylum case for their client after a judge blocked the Trump administration from immediately deporting Abrego Garcia to Uganda.
“At 5 p.m. yesterday, Petitioner filed a motion to reopen before an immigration judge to seek asylum in the United States,” his attorneys said in a court filing on Tuesday. They requested that both parties in the case allow up to two weeks to allow an “immigration judge to resolve that motion.”
While Abrego Garcia, a national of El Salvador, was initially offered deportation to Costa Rica, the administration has since raised the threat of deporting him to the African nation of Uganda after he rejected the plea offer….