Immigration Judge Rejects Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Asylum Bid

The illegal immigrant can appeal the decision within 30 days.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia in a protest rally outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, on Aug. 25, 2025. Stephanie Scarbrough/AP Photo

An immigration judge in Maryland on Oct. 1 rejected a motion filed by Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s attorneys to reopen his 2019 petition for asylum in the United States.

Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, was deported to his homeland in March by the Trump administration and was later returned to the United States under a Supreme Court order.