Abrego Garcia Asks Court to Delay Deportation Pending New Asylum Hearing

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s attorneys said his client ‘would face persecution and torture’ in Uganda, where the administration has threatened to deport him.
Abrego Garcia Asks Court to Delay Deportation Pending New Asylum Hearing
Surrounded by reporters, Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura enter a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Baltimore, Md., on Aug. 25, 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
|Updated:
0:00

Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia have asked a judge to open another asylum case for their client after a judge blocked the Trump administration from immediately deporting Abrego Garcia to Uganda.

“At 5 p.m. yesterday, Petitioner filed a motion to reopen before an immigration judge to seek asylum in the United States,” his attorneys said in a court filing on Tuesday. They requested that both parties in the case allow up to two weeks to allow an “immigration judge to resolve that motion.”