The Trump administration is struggling to find a foreign country willing to accept Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national with a checkered legal history, as a federal judge in Maryland weighs ordering his release from immigration detention.
The saga of Abrego Garcia, 29, has become a test of the administration’s “third-country” deportation strategy, which has otherwise logged major successes in returning migrants to partner nations that agree to cooperate with U.S. enforcement. But those efforts have faltered in Abrego Garcia’s case amid diplomatic resistance and lingering legal restrictions from a 2019 immigration ruling that bars his removal to El Salvador.
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