Kilmar Abrego García was taken in immigration custody after consulting with the immigration application and customs in his office in Baltimore on Monday morning, his lawyer announced.
Abrego García was arrested as soon as he entered the ICE office, said lawyer Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg.
“We asked the ICE officer what was the reason for his detention, the ICE officer did not respond,” said Sandoval-Moshenberg, and added that ICE officers would not tell which detention center would take his client.
“We asked the ICE officer for a copy of any paperwork that has been served today, the ICE officer would not even give us that paperwork,” he added.
Sandoval-Moshenberg said a new demand that defies the arrest of Abrego García and the possible deportation was presented in Maryland.
Kilmar Abrego, attends an event with the followers, since it appears for a check-in at the Ice Baltimore field office three days after his release of criminal custody in Tennessee, in Baltimore, Maryland, August 25, 2025.
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Less than 24 hours after being released from criminal custody in Tennessee on Friday, ICE notified Abrego García’s lawyers that he could be deported to Uganda and ordered him to inform his office in Maryland.
ICE’s notification occurred after Abrego García rejected a guilt agreement to be deported to Costa Rica in exchange for declaring himself guilty of human smuggling charges and remaining in jail, according to a judicial presentation of his lawyers.
In the presentation, Abrego García’s lawyers accused the Federal Government of trying to force their client to accept a statement of guilt or deportation to East Africa.
In July, the American district judge Paula Xinis ordered the Government to “restore Abrego García to her ice supervision order outside the Baltimore field office.”
But Xinis also said that if the government intends to deport Abrego García to a third country, it must provide a 72 -hour notice.
The order allowed the administration of President Donald Trump to initiate “legal immigration procedures” when Abrego García returned to Maryland.
Immigration procedures may or may not include “legal arrest, detention and eventual elimination,” Xinis said in July.
