JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers say the Trump administration is trying to coerce him to plead guilty to the charges he is facing by promising to deport him to Costa Rica — and threatening to deport him to Uganda if he doesn’t. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Donald's regime must be enjoined from removing Garcia from the United States until all his immigration & legal issues are conclusively resolved. He has a right against unlawful detention & that cannot be taken away.
The administration made a mistake. What a bunch of losers that they can't admit that and move on.
What the FUCK is seriously wrong with this twisted motherfucker?? (Rhetorical question...)
Not that anything matters anymore, but a judge really isn’t supposed to accept a guilty plea if the defendant was threatened or made some promise unrelated to his actual sentence.
The government's trial of this case in public by itself justifies dismissal of the criminal case against Garcia.
His last name is Abrego García. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish...
He apparently prefers to be called Abrego.
Yeah, because in Hispanic tradition you use either your parental last name, or both your parental and maternal last names together.
Ugh, he’s gonna be always looking over his shoulder because this admin has decided to make him fall guy. I don’t see how he gets a fair trial because of everything the admin has done.
Go seek refuge in an embassy if our allies.
This administration is just evil.
Sounds a lot like blackmail to me, but I'm no lawyer.
Heads I win. Tails you lose.
Everything else aside , why believe a promise from them?
He needs great immigration lawyers!! This is ridiculous!!! Why is our government picking on this guy? It’s like they want to crucify him because of their embarrassment for the way they screwed up. The country is watching! 🤬🤬
Fascist criminals!
The outrageous thing here is that Chief Justice Roberts supports and condones this. It is his doing.
Question: if the case is dismissed will he still be deported?
There is no bottom. We're well into a Christofascist regime.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure any plea made under duress isn't valid. Also the threats are in violation of the courts who said "no, you can't do that." But here we are.
This is a man that needs every bit of help…my heart aches for him and his family
Deplorable aholes.
Which is cheaper? Waste and fraud. Trump admin=waste&fraud
I hope escape in his weekend plans.
If case is dismissed they can still deport him tho?
They are threatening to deport him before any hearings would get to that point.
If he were to accept this deal & plead guilty, I bet they'd send him to Uganda anyway.
The question I keep asking myself is WHY are they so focused on this one man?
Pride. They don't want to admit they're in the wrong.
This is the most corrupt administration in our 250 year history. They should all be thrown to jail and forfeit every federal benefit.
They are evil. Leave this man alone FFS.
It would really be great if people reporting on this act of terrorism would: 1) Reject the regime's labeling. You cannot be deported to a country if you're not originally from there. This is human trafficking. 2) Stop intentionally excluding visually impaired people by refusing to use alt text.
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Despicable, sociopathic thugs
3rd option. Fight in court and get vindictive charges dismissed, and avoid deportation
and force the DoJ/DHS legal teams to go though discovery & use their work time/recourses in court/trail .... not letting that staff and resources be used for other spurious prosecutions... every hour the DoJ/DHS spends in court is an hour they aren't working on something else..
and eventually only Pam Bondi, and Todd Blanche are going to be the only lawyers with experience in the DOJ
and Bondi already has a challenges to her Law Licenses going on.. which can take time away from her other activities.. I am a little shocked that there hasn't been mass complaints against every DoJ/DHS Law License.
Extortion? Abuse of power? Contempt? The list of things our corrupt government now practices instead of following constitution and laws.
Gangster Government 💔
Absolute cruelty is the point people. The Trump regime MUST be stopped
The fascist Trump disgraces our country everyday.
guy needs to get into the Canadian embassy or something similar and plead for asylum.
That’s tricky, the way our asylum laws work is if he’s claimed in one nation already(USA) he can’t make the claim here. He would have withdraw his claim in the USA, which removes his protected status then physically come to Canada and make the claim on our soil It’s a good thought but risky
He's claiming asylum in the US from Venezuela and would be claiming asylum from the US in Canada. Funny if it wasn't so dark.
It’s the third safe country act. Don’t doesn’t matter. He’s made the claim in the USA. Plus they’ve thrown charges on him. He’d have to with make the submission online or show up at a land crossing. After he formally withdraw any he already has
He’s not from Venezuela. He’s from El Salvador
Thanks for the correction. I forget that sometimes because the majority of those sense that El Salvadorian prison were from Venezuela iirc
Sent* ugh
Sorry but no, he needs to fight this because it's bullshit
he's going to be in Uganda by this time tomorrow dude
And he needs to fight it! He has the advantage that the media is following his case. How many hundreds have been sent and no one knows anything about them?
Good idea.
The Trump 1 Immigration court ruled in 2019 Garcia faced credible fear of deportation and could stay in the country legally. Garcia still has a strong case for remaining legally in the US
why do people think you can just apply for canadian asylum and get it they’re famously one of the hardest countries to immigrate to
you haven't been to Canada recently have you. It's asylum and refugee claim central up here.
yeah of which ZERO filed claims from the united states
at least 115 in 2024 www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/statistic...
lol did you look at the chart it says - - in the accepted column for the united states
especially claiming refugee status from the united states it’s just never going to happen
striving hardest for attaining total degeneration
Deport me to Costa Rica any day.
I hope his attorney absolutely hammers them in court!😤.
I hope Albrego writes a book and it becomes a true crime documentary. Expose all of Trump's vendetta enforcers.
Just keep on pushing, and maybe you'll get that square peg narrative to fit into that round hole of reality.
And that's pretty frightening. The immediate question is can Abrego Garcia’s attorney's get this in front of a district judge/court opposed to an immigration judge/court?
The ridiculous amount of doubling down by the administration, rather than just admitting they fucked up in this case is truly impressive.
The threats are going in the wrong direction. These mobsters must be the ones who feel threatened. Yet most of the American people are still sleeping....
At this point I think the option he has is to take his family and move to a country where he will be given asylum because these people will not stop. Their desire to save face after their fuck up will make them destroy his life. Go seek asylum somewhere and live the rest of his life in peace.
Unconstitutional? Illegal?
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There is absolutely no redemption for anyone even remotely associated with this despicable persecution.
"Justify our manufactured narrative about who you are or we will send you to the worst place we can find" is about as coercive and tin pot dictatorial as you can get.
Rule of law replaced by rule of crooks!
tRump is king - of extortion
A real judge would say, that’s enough. Case dismissed, and refer the attorneys to bar disciplinary board.
😳🤬 This should surprise no one.
I'm tired of the dystopian nightmare string of the multiverse.
@alt-text.bsky.social
So he’s been found guilty with no trial?
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nope. not true. the judge has said he will deport him to fucking UGANDA! what the hell is wrong with half this country! 🤬🤬🤬
If they do remove him to Uganda the Mamdani family should put him up in luxury at their farm.
Well they’ve basically blown the trial with that now - they are all-in.
And hopefully blown any pretense that they're deporting to 3rd countries free from possibility of "persecution or torture." They should be enjoined for 5 years from deporting him to any 3rd country but Costa Rica or another of his preference. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/sites/defaul...
fuck this pos regime and anyone who voted for it #voteouteveryrepublican
Judge ordered no deportation until the matter is settled. In the meantime, he should call Canada
Abrego’s lawyers say the coordination between DOJ and DHS to exert leverage over the plea negotiations is proof of a vindictive motive warranting dismissal of the criminal case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I think one of the most powerful statements he could put out there is a picture of his knuckles without the fake tattoos with a caption that says simply: "They are lying!"
They say "vindictive" Government says "righteous"
Yeah, they’re lying. We don’t need to promote their lies
Rule of law is dead. Arm yourselves.
Wait and see what the court says. Looks like the filing is addressed to an Obama appointee.
It largely doesn’t matter what the court says here. The government has expressed that it is unbound by laws and the final and uliyimate court has blessed the worldview that the law does not constrain the rulers of the country. QED the rule of law is dead. long live the rulers we replaced it with.
Here's the beginning of my case that it does matter what courts say: equalopportunitycynic.miraheze.org/wiki/Supreme... Probably not that interesting to anyone else. But good for my sanity to write that out in longer form.
"[Supreme] court has blessed the worldview that the law does not constrain the rulers of the country" Actually the opposite--Abrego won a 9-0 decision, recall--but suit yourself. So if it's hopeless why would you waste time posting here?
And that's done so much to curtail the behavior from this administration
In what country is Ábrego physically located as of this post? Moreover, why would DOJ/DHS beclown themselves by blowing up a legal case with a desperate extortion plan? Why not kidnap him to El Salvador again?
After the Trump admin made up interpretations of his tattoos, deported him in error to a country he was never supposed to go to, then they told us they couldn't get him back. They can't get a grand jury to indict which is telling, so the only thing they have left is coercion on Uganda vs Costa Rica
Yeah, their behavior has been every dimension of appalling. The point is they're marshaling every bit of evil and creative energy to GET AROUND the courts, not to OPENLY DEFY SCOTUS. Competitive authoritarianism requires a gradual coopting of institutions, not a grand civil war for the ages.
That SCOTUS has ruled that the government has no duty to garcia, but should ask nicely for Garcia's return, has no real weight on whether the courts will allow punishment for violations of the law. SCOTUS has invented law multiple times to defuse hard line contempt since that ruling. 1/
I hold no confidence the SCOTUS that has evicerated Bivens relief will allow punishments for contempt against officials. I am posting to curb expectation. Maybe the court protects this one immigrant. But once the secret rendition happens, there is no recourse, as the 9-0 decision confirmed.
What was that 9-0 win, again?
Assuming that's a sincere request www.msn.com/en-us/news/p... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
It was sincere and thank you for providing article. There has been so much that has happened in the last 7 months, (or has it been 10 yrs?), that I forgot about SCOTUS ruling on this.
In fairness there has been such a procession of bullshit procedural dodges all throughout the court hierarchy, it's easy to forget this. But the losses are mostly procedural. When forced to rule on the govt kidnapping people beyond jurisdiction, they unanimously disallowed it.
They disallow it but protect the government form punishment when they violate court rulings.
DHS and DoJ colluding on mafia-style thuggery
They aren’t wrong.
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia says DOJ has given him an ultimatum: Plead guilty to human smuggling by Monday and be deported to Costa Rica — or refuse and be deported to Uganda. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
So maybe Uganda needs to understand that this is a travesty of justice AND not what they agreed to in their temporary agreement this week to accept 'deported migrants' from the US. They specified only migrants without criminal records.
What sort of human trafficking are they alleging?
Deport Pam Bondi to anywhere.
Definitely the kind of demand one makes from a position of strength. 🙃
This is just pure EVIL. THIS is Stephen Miller. THIS is the Trump regime enabled by congressional Republicans.
Damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t. How is this outrageous and illegal choice actually being “offered” by our government? We don’t recognize this place any more.
How vile and evil!
The prosecutors behind this should lose their bar cards and be arrested
Completely illegal but with this Regime, they don’t care.
Monsters.
They are sentencing him to death
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For the slow kids in the room, that’s what we call a plea bargain.
Fucking insane
Mob tactics.
If he is not guilty he would be insane to agree to a) get himself incarcerated for no reason b) get deported to some foreign country away from his family c) exposing this country for corruption that is at the heart of this witch hunt will be a historic victory
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has been released, have been informed by ICE that he could now be subject to deportation to Uganda, and he's been told to report to ICE next week, a source confirms to me. A few points about this, because there will be a lot of bullshit about
The judge can dismiss the case, but how can he protect Abrego Garcia from being shipped off to Africa? How can we protect this man?
He needs a restraining order against the government, if that is even a thing...
how can this be legal?
It isn't. It's not even legal for him to come to Costa Rica as a convicted criminal, our laws deny entry to the country to convicted criminals. bsky.app/profile/japo...
It’s time for a Democrat leader to secret him away to some nicer country that would accept him and treat him well. It would actually make that person a fucking hero. Certainly they would be arrested, but that’s what they need to do.
No, anything short of defeating this bogus charge is conceding to the administration. I would not consider that democrat a hero. Garcia has built a life here and done everything right. Anything short of keeping the life he has built is a win for the administration.
He can’t seek asylum because he hasn’t been to trial to prove or disprove his innocence.
Can he seek asylum in another country?
I’m not sure if he can being as though he has an unresolved charge against him.
Maybe. I don't know how it works in other countries. I thought some people who sought asylum were doing it to get away from political persecution. Either way, I hope he gets to stay free. 😬
Yeah I think persecution and prosecution are treated differently.
The feds ADMITTED his first deportation was an error! He needs to film a live interview today and tell his story and distribute it with any network that will touch it
well deport Melania to Uganda too ! She was an illegal alien and her Einstein visa is a huge fraud on the United States
Weird way to spell St Helena
It’s like a modern day version of the Salem witch trials.
DOJ is pure sick now. 😱🪳👎🤬🪳🪳🪳
I sure as hell wouldn't trust this lying government with any plea deal. Meaning it doesn't matter what he does, he'll still wind up in Uganda.
Threats and more threats. I hope Abrego doesn’t give in. Why are they laser focused on this man??
Deport Pam Bondi to Uganda.
I feel sick.
Where is the LAW? This is NOT JUSTICE. THIS IS A KANGAROO COURT. DO SOMETHING TO HELP THIS MAN! The clock is ticking⏰ @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
DOJ wants criminal case dismissed because they know they do NOT have evidence to prove his guilt.
Damn right it is.
I just heard on the news that the Trump “administration” will fight until (Mr.) Abrego is out of the country. I don’t believe “sore loser” comes close to what I’d describe the current regime as, - this election y cycle has been entirely about retribution and revenge for perceived slights.
Uganda, the perfect place for a Hispanic guy with American family after managing to get out of El Salvador. Sadism on steroids is the Trump/ICE/GNOME/Miller credo.
Someone get that man and his family to Canada or Mexico ASAP!! He won’t be safe here in the Russian States of America.
They just can’t accept the L here. They want to use him to make a point because people have backed him so much.
Heartless Sons of Bitches
And, forgive me if I'm behind the times, there's still no evidence he did ANYTHING wrong?
The MAGA-Unitary Executive-minded extreme minority of Americans commandeered the R party via this 👇 process of power concentration, a process the founders warned us against. What’s happening right now is not surprising. We can fix it though.
Fix it how? First by electorally ejecting Trumpism. We’ve got to do that first. Otherwise the rest won’t work. Then, we must agree to return to the original construct of the founders — ATOMIZED, separated power with checks. No political party controlling power.👇 www.realindependent.com
At this point we should drop the use of "Trump Administration". It's the "Trump Regime" - and just like all fascist, evil regimes in the last 100 years it's seeking to remove democracy. Calling it a regime also means that "Regime Change" must surely be possible.
If he were really guilty, WTH would Costa Rica accept him? Why should Costa Rica take criminals from other countries? I bet Costa Rica has not even been consulted yet. (No, I don’t think Abrego Garcia should be convicted or deported.)
Of course they are. Trump loves punching down.
#Dispicable
Kafka
These people are scum. Absolute scum.
My country is evil
How very Soviet of them.
Maybe they could send him to Club Fed like Maxwell. Or is that too cushy?
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deport him to a far more dangerous place do they write costa rica v. uganda?
wow doesnt matter if its right or wrong costa rica vs. uganda is this for real? should be on paper... can we see it?
Why are you throwing around the word "deport" in an inappropriate manner? This is human trafficking
How is this *not* extortion?
Trump was sure the expression was "an Own Ghoul."
Why doesn’t the Press show photos of Garcia’s knuckles that FOTUS trump proudly showed a photo of with FAKED MS13 tattoos months ago?? Proof FOTUS LIED again to the country & the world!!!
Because the media is the felon's enabler.
This is not a Trump Administration... It's Trump's terrorist organization. They are trying to FORCE a guilty plea through DURESS.
How much has the wife raised with her go fund me ? Couldn’t they just voluntarily leave and maybe apply for asylum somewhere else? Maybe Canada would take them. I wouldn't want to stick around this country if I had the means to leave.
This has to be fought. The judge in Tennessee should insert themself into this and declare dismissal. I hate republicans
Honestly, I would be concerned mor my children’s safety and get far away from this country as possible. The government isn’t going to let it go and you can’t trust courts anymore.
Me neither, but the effective exile of at least two US Citizens (Vasquez and iirc at least one of Abrego's children) through persecution of their husband/dad is obviously unacceptable.
Disgusting bullies. Grrrrr.
They are so corrupt and evil.
Cruel.
…and scared. I love this for them 😊
Either way, they want him out. Why? Because he's not white. At this point, that's just ultra racism.
