Liberia, a west African nation based to soak up freed American slaves, has mentioned it might be prepared to simply accept Salvadoran nationwideKilmar Abrego Garcia if the US deports him. The US wrongly deported Abrego Garcia in March, the place he was incarcerated in El Salvador’s infamous CECOT mega-prison earlier than returning to the US in June.
The west African nation ofLiberiamentioned Saturday it might absorb a Salvadoran man on the centre of a deportation row denounced by opponents of PresidentDonald Trump’simmigrationcrackdown.
Liberia’s authorities mentioned in a press release it might obtain Kilmar Abrego Garcia “on a strictly humanitarian and non permanent foundation, following a proper request from the federal government of the United States of America”.
The US authorities mentioned in a court docket submitting Friday it deliberate to deport Abrego Garcia to the “thriving democracy” of Liberia inside every week.
Trump’s authorities accuses him of being a violent MS-13 gang member concerned in smuggling different undocumentedmigrants.
He was already wrongly deported toEl Salvadorin March, thensent again to the United States in June.
Liberia is the primary nation in Africa to agree to simply accept Abrego after the administrationunsuccessfully floated Uganda, Eswatini and Ghana as choices for a possible second deportation.
A lawyer for Abrego Garcia mentioned the person had no connection to Liberia, and that floating that as a deportation vacation spot was “merciless and unconstitutional”.
The lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, saidCosta Ricawas prepared to take him in as a refugee.
Liberia mentioned the choice to obtain Abrego Garcia was arrived at “after in depth consultations” and tracked with its dedication to ideas of “human dignity, worldwide solidarity, and compassion in occasions of misery”.
The nation which was based to soak up freed American slaves famous its “longstanding friendship” with the United States, with which it might “proceed to interact … to make sure that all assurances and preparations between the 2 international locations are absolutely noticed”.
Abrego Garcia had been residing within the United States below protected authorized standing since 2019, when a choose dominated he shouldn’t be deported as a result of he could possibly be harmed in his house nation.
He then grew to become one among greater than 200 individuals despatched to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison in March as a part of Trump’s crackdown on undocumented migrants.
But Justice Department legal professionals admitted that the Salvadoran had been wrongly deported because of an “administrative error.”
Abrego Garcia was returned to US soil months later, solely to be detained once more in Tennessee on human smuggling expenses, a separate case from the Maryland proceedings.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP and Reuters)
Originally revealed on France24
