OAN Staff Katherine Mosack
2:57 PM – Friday, March 20, 2026
President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to remove Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the United States, this time sending him to Liberia.
On Friday, the White House filed a motion in the U.S. District Court in Maryland asking a federal judge to lift two injunctions in Abrego Garcia’s case, one preventing his detention and another blocking his removal. It argued that the injunctions are based on legal errors and are no longer equitable, especially because Liberia is willing to accept Garcia, and the court’s own “clear legal errors” are the only impediment to his swift removal.
The court’s memorandum order had failed to acknowledge that its prior injunction against removal is the sole cause of prolonged detention, which it then deemed impermissibly prolonged.
The U.S.’s lawyers wrote that it “presently stands ready, willing, and able” to send the illegal immigrant to Liberia and asked the court to make its decision by April 17th.
Abrego Garcia was deported to his home country of El Salvador in 2025 despite a 2019 court order forbidding his removal to that country due to safety risks. The Trump administration asserted that he was an MS-13 gang member.
In June, a court ordered his return to the U.S., where he faced federal charges, including accusations of human smuggling. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) re-arrested Abrego Garcia with intentions to deport him to Uganda despite his efforts to be sent to Costa Rica. A federal judge blocked these removal attempts temporarily.
According to a memo filed in federal court, the administration previously negotiated with the government of Liberia to accept Abrego Garcia if he were to be deported from the U.S. again. ICE argued that abandoning the agreement “could cast doubt on the diplomatic reliability of the United States.”
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