Photos: Tears, hugs, protests as Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces deportation to Uganda as he reports to ICE office

Kilmar Abrego Garcia arrived in Baltimore on Monday morning in preparation for reporting to US immigration officials and perhaps face deportation proceedings.

Updated on: Aug 25, 2025 6:17 PM IST

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was deported to El Salvador earlier this year, center, and his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura, right, arrive for a check-in at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Baltimore, (Bloomberg)

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The Maryland man who became a face of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration after being accidentally deported to El Salvador has been given a stark choice back in the US: plead guilty to human smuggling charges or be sent to Uganda. Photographer: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg (Bloomberg)

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After spending more than five months in incarceration, including time in a severe mega-prison in his native El Salvador, 30-year-old Abrego was freed from criminal custody in Tennessee on Friday and brought back to his family home in Maryland. (Bloomberg)

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However, his freedom might be short-lived as immigration authorities might arrest him and start fresh deportation procedures. (Bloomberg)

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Abrego was scheduled to report to ICE on Monday at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT). Around 7:30 a.m., he arrived at the field office in downtown Baltimore, where a throng of supporters cheered "Si se puede," which translates to "Yes we can." Before passing through a security checkpoint, he and his spouse shared an embrace in the foyer of the building. (Bloomberg)

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Jennifer Vasquez Sura, left, hugs her husband Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) (AP)

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Supporters pray with Salvadoran migrant and US resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia (lower C, black shirt) as they address the media upon Abrego Garcia's arrival at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 25, 2025. The US government intends to deport Garcia, a Salvadoran man at ground zero of President Donald Trump's war on illegal immigration, to Uganda next week, his lawyers said on August 23. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP) (AFP)

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In court filings filed on Saturday, his attorneys stated that he could be sent to Uganda, an East African nation that is "far more dangerous," if he does not enter a guilty plea. (AFP)

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Additionally, his attorneys are requesting that Nashville-based U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw, who is presiding over his criminal case, drop the charges against him, claiming that he was "vindictively and selectively" charged as revenge from the Trump administration for contesting his prior deportation. (REUTERS)

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In March, Abrego was deported to El Salvador, even though an immigration judge in 2019 had ruled against sending him there because of the possibility of gang persecution. In order to face the criminal charges, he was flown back to the United States in June. (REUTERS)