Judge Rejects Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Bid to Reopen Asylum Claim
3 minute readPublished: Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 8:57 pm
Kilmar brego Garca, the man whom the Trump administration wrongly deported to El Salvador earlier this year, has been denied a bid to reopen his asylum case.The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Immigration Judge Philip P. Taylor rejected brego Garca's asylum request, as he found "insufficient evidence" to show that the Trump administration planned his "imminent removal to Uganda," even though the US Department of Homeland Security wrote in a social media post in late August that he would be processed for removal to that nation.In explaining his ruling, Taylor noted that the government had not yet filed any paperwork to send brego Garca to Uganda, and a government attorney said that deporting him to Uganda was merely a possibility not a foregone conclusion.brego Garca now has 30 days to appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals.The Trump administration this past June complied with a Supreme Court order to facilitate brego Garca's return to United States after it acknowledged months earlier that he had been improperly deported to El Salvador, where a US immigration judge had ruled years earlier he faced direct danger from gang threats against him and his family.While imprisoned in El Salvadors infamous Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), brego Garca's attorneys allege he was subjected to physical and psychological abuse "including but not limited to severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture."Upon his return, the US Department of Justice promptly hit him with human smuggling charges to which he has pleaded not guilty.President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi have also accused brego Garca of being a member of the gang MS-13, although they have produced no evidence to back up that assertion.