US still wants to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, despite new agreement with Costa Rica

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 5:43 PM EDT, April 7, 2026


U.S. government attorneys on Tuesday told a federal judge the Department of Homeland Security still intends to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, despite a new agreement with Costa Rica to accept deportees who cannot legally be returned to their home countries.

The Salvadoran national’s case has become a focal point in the immigration debate after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last year. Since his return, he has been fighting a second deportation to a series of African countries proposed by Homeland Security officials.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, of Maryland, previously barred U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from deporting him or detaining him. She has written that the agency has no viable plan to actually deport Abrego Garcia, referring in February to “one empty threat after another to remove him to countries in Africa with no real chance of success.”

Abrego Garcia has argued that if he is going to be deported, it should be to Costa Rica, which previously agreed to accept him. But Todd Lyons, the acting head of U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, said in a March memo that deporting Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica would be “prejudicial to the United States.” Abrego Garcia should be sent to Liberia because the U.S. has spent government resources and political capital negotiating with the West African nation to accept third-country nationals, Lyons wrote.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/abrego-garcia-deportation-liberia-costa-rica-immigration-e7f637d07f2135740c4d9a5d250661b9

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[hlthe2b]

1. Time for that judge to hold the government responsible for their lies & retributive attempts..

Either send him to Costa Rica or grant him permanent resident status. Bet if offered that choice, it would take seconds to get past Lyon's butt pain from the constant spankings.

[twodogsbarking]

2. Sure have wasted a lot of time and money.

[JBTaurus83]

3. Cruelty for the sake of cruelty

My spouse is from Costa Rica. Central American deportees would be MUCH better off there than in some country they have nothing in common with and non-existent human rights.

[GiqueCee]

4. This is just...

... the mindless malice of Nosferatu Miller. In some ways, he's even more evil than Trump. I will buy tickets to piss on both their graves as soon as they become available.