Here's What Might Happen At Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Ice Check-in

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, nan man who was mistakenly deported to a notorious situation successful El Salvador, will meet pinch migration officials Monday nether nan looming threat of a 2nd deportation, this clip to Uganda.

Abrego's lawsuit — a flashpoint successful nan Trump administrations crackdown connected migration — is now astatine a awesome crossroads.

He was released from national custody connected parole on Friday, and had a tearful reunion pinch his family after astir half a twelvemonth apart.

But nan Trump management has doubled down connected its resoluteness to deport Abrego, alleging he is simply a personnel of nan convulsive pack MS-13 — a declare his attorneys person many times denied.

Abrego had been deported successful March successful what nan White House called an “administrative error” and aft a tedious ineligible saga, was returned to nan U.S. successful June. But he was instantly detained again, this clip connected human smuggling charges successful Tennessee. He pleaded not blameworthy to those charges.

Minutes aft his release, migration authorities notified Abrego that they intend to deport him to Uganda. Separately, nan Trump management offered Abrego a plea woody that ensures his eventual deportation to Costa Rica.

On Friday night, nan authorities informed Abrego that he has until "first thing" Monday greeting to judge a plea successful speech for deportation to Costa Rica, "or other that connection will beryllium disconnected nan array forever," Abrego's attorneys wrote successful a filing arsenic portion of their efforts to get nan charges successful Tennessee dropped complete what they see to beryllium a "vindictive" and "selective" prosecution.

Here are really Monday's assignment whitethorn play out:

Monday’s ICE check-in

Abrego will person a check-in pinch Immigration and Customs Enforcement successful Baltimore connected Monday arsenic portion of nan conditions of his merchandise from national custody connected parole.

Typically, specified ICE check-ins are little meetings pinch an serviceman from ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations to reappraisal lawsuit status, supply updates, and corroborate wherever a personification is living. Usually, a personification is released until nan adjacent scheduled check-in.

But Abrego's attorneys told NBC News they expect he will beryllium taken into ICE custody during nan check-in, fixed nan Trump administration's announcement of their intent to deport him.

A judge ruled successful July that nan authorities had to supply 72 hours notice, excluding weekends, if it intends to deport Abrego to a 3rd country, which nan Justice Department provided connected Friday afternoon.

Abrego’s lawyers person said he illegally immigrated to nan U.S. erstwhile he was 16 to subordinate his relative successful Maryland to flight pack unit successful El Salvador.

His deportation to El Salvador violated a 2019 tribunal bid that protected him from being deported to his location state owed to concerns that he’d beryllium persecuted by convulsive gangs. But, that bid doesn’t forestall his deportation to immoderate different country.

What whitethorn hap from here?

There are respective paths that could unfold from here: Abrego could return nan plea woody and yet beryllium deported to Costa Rica, he could garbage to and beryllium deported to Uganda, aliases his lawyers could conflict against Uganda arsenic a deportation option.

If Abrego does not alteration his plea successful nan Tennessee national case, he could beryllium deported from nan U.S. to Uganda arsenic soon arsenic Wednesday.

However, Abrego could not look nan criminal charges of quality smuggling brought against him by Department of Justice successful that lawsuit if he is removed from nan country. His proceedings is group for January successful Nashville.

Last week, Uganda agreed to a woody pinch nan U.S. to return deported migrants, arsenic agelong arsenic they don’t person criminal records and are not unaccompanied minors. Uganda’s overseas ministry said nan federation prefers that migrants sent location beryllium of African nationalities.

Abrego’s attorneys could besides effort to forestall his deportation to Uganda altogether, and effort to person an migration judge wrong 72 hours that Abrego is apt to acquisition persecution aliases torture there. An migration judge would person to work together to forestall his deportation to nan African nation.

On Saturday, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, 1 of Abrego’s attorneys, accused nan authorities of “punishing” Abrego for “exercising his law rights.”

“It is preposterous that they would nonstop him to Africa, to a state wherever he doesn’t moreover speak nan language, a state pinch documented quality authorities violations, erstwhile location are truthful galore different options. This family has suffered enough,” Sandoval-Moshenberg said extracurricular Abrego’s brother's home.

He said they intend to “fight bony and nail” against deportation to Uganda, South Sudan, Libya and “any different wholly ridiculous state that they tin travel up with.”

What if Abrego takes a plea deal?

Alternatively, Abrego could return a plea woody offered by nan Trump management earlier this week.

That woody requires him to plead blameworthy to some counts of nan criminal indictment against him successful Tennessee, service time, and past beryllium deported.

Should he plead blameworthy aliases beryllium convicted by a jury, nan charges against Abrego transportation a condemnation of up to 10 years successful national prison. Under either scenario, U.S. District Judge Wesley Crenshaw successful Nashville will find really overmuch clip Abrego will serve.

If yet deported to Costa Rica, Abrego would beryllium welcomed arsenic a exile and unrecorded arsenic a free man, nan Costa Rican authorities said successful a missive submitted to nan tribunal by 1 of Abrego's attorneys arsenic portion of nan filing successful nan Tennessee case.

In that filing, lawyer Sean Hecker said that nan Department of Justice, Homeland Security and ICE were “using their corporate powers to unit Mr. Abrego to take betwixt a blameworthy plea followed by comparative safety, aliases rendition to Uganda, wherever his information and liberty would beryllium nether threat.”

Sandoval-Moshenberg connected Saturday called nan Costa Rica plea woody connection “pretty reasonable,” noting “Costa Rica makes sense. It’s a Spanish speaking country. It’s proximate to nan United States. His family tin sojourn him location easily.”

Abrego's lawsuit has sparked heated statement and aggravated scrutiny complete nan Trump administration's migration policies including nan title to deport group — astatine times without owed process, fierce ICE raids and sordid detainment installation conditions.