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Kilmar Abrego Garcia will be deported to the small African nation of Eswatini, formerly Swaziland.
“Maryland Man” Garcia was informed on Friday that he will be removed to Eswatini after his lawyers filed a list of objections to other deportation destinations, including Uganda. Garcia’s lawyers argued their client would be at risk of torture.
“That claim of fear is hard to take seriously, especially given that you have claimed (through your attorneys) that you fear persecution or torture in at least 22 different countries,” reads an email that was sent to Garcia informing him of his deportation.
“Nonetheless, we hereby notify you that your new country of removal is Eswatini, Africa,” the email continued.
An ICE official confirmed Garcia will be deported to Eswatini, telling CNN, “TRUE: An immigration judge ordered him removed and ICE will comply with that order.”
Eswatini is one of four African countries that have struck a deal with the Trump administration to receive foreign deportees, along with Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda.
Garcia is currently in ICE custody after being brought back to the US to face human smuggling charges—he is alleged to have earned over $100,000 a year as a smuggler, and he has also faced child-sex accusations—but the Trump administration is trying to deport him before the trial concludes.
Last week, the presiding judge ruled Garcia cannot be deported until October at the earliest, after the Trump admin officials have testified about their attempts to deport him.
Garcia wants to be sent to Costa Rica, which has said it would give him legal status.
At the end of last month, Garcia asked a federal judge to gag Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to prevent them making “baseless public attacks” on him.
“To safeguard his right to a fair trial, Mr. Abrego respectfully renews his earlier requests that the Court order that all DOJ and DHS officials involved in this case, and all officials in their supervisory chain, including [Bondi and Noem], refrain from making extrajudicial comments that pose a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing this proceeding,” Garcia’s lawyers said in a motion filed on Thursday, in Tennessee.
Garcia’s lawyers claim he has been subject to “highly prejudicial, inflammatory and false statements” since his release from prison a week ago.
Secretary Noem has accused Garcia, who entered the US illegally, of being associated with brutal Salvadorean gang MS-13.
“He doesn’t belong here. He won’t be staying here. America is a safer nation without this MS-13 Gangbanger in it,” The Department of Homeland Security said of Abrego Garcia in a post on X on Monday.
Garcia was arrested and deported to El Salvador in March, becoming a cause célèbre for Democrats and the American left in the process. A judge ordered him to be returned to the US.
After returning to the US, Garcia was hit with human-trafficking charges.
Prosecutors claim Garcia made hundreds of trips from the US-Mexico border to deliver illegal aliens across the US.
Garcia is said to have worked “full time” as a people-smuggler, earning as much as $1500 per trip.
Two witnesses testified that smugglers would charge migrants from Central and South America as much as $8,000 for passage into the US. Once in the US, Garcia would transport them across the US to their destinations.
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