The Salvadoran man who was illegally deported in March has reasserted his claim for asylum.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/27/kilmar-abrego-garcia-asylum-00531024
Abrego, who entered the U.S. illegally in 2011, has already been deported once this year: The Trump administration expelled him to El Salvador in March. Courts declared the deportation illegal and ordered the administration to seek his return. The administration brought him back to the U.S. in June and charged him with human smuggling, which Abrego denies.
In response to a query from POLITICO, Sandoval-Moshenberg said his client’s recent reentry into the U.S. entitles him to a new bid for asylum.
Abrego last sought asylum in 2019 during immigration-court proceedings, but a judge denied his claim, saying he had waited too long after entering the United States to file it.
“The only reason that Mr. Abrego Garcia was denied asylum was that he had failed to apply within one year of arriving in the United States as required,” Sandoval-Moshenberg said. “Now, Mr. Abrego Garcia has returned to the United States less than one year ago, and so is eligible to apply.”
During a video conference Wednesday in Abrego’s new lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said that she has no jurisdiction over the renewed asylum claim but that she intends to hold a hearing Oct. 6 on Abrego’s bid to block his deportation to Uganda.
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