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The Trump administration<\/span> announced Monday it was processing Kilmar Abrego Garcia for expulsion to Uganda, threatening to banish him to the United States\u2019 growing network of deportee dumping grounds for the second time.<\/p>\n Abrego Garcia, a native of El Salvador, was erroneously deported to his home country in March and held in the notorious\u00a0Terrorism Confinement Center<\/a>, or CECOT<\/a>, becoming the face of President Donald Trump\u2019s aggressive deportation regime. After the Trump administration spent months claiming falsely that Abrego Garcia could not be recovered from El Salvador\u2019s custody, he was returned to the U.S. in June and jailed on federal human smuggling<\/a> charges. A judge ruled that he should be released from detention ahead of a trial set for January.\u00a0<\/p>\n Abrego Garcia was freed<\/a> from pretrial detention last Friday. His attorneys were sent a court-required notice of his potential\u00a0deportation to Uganda on Saturday. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in a post on X Monday morning that ICE had arrested Abrego Garcia, and\u00a0DHS said in a\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0that he was \u201cbeing processed for removal to Uganda.\u201d On Monday, a federal judge temporarily blocked Abrego Garcia\u2019s removal from the United States.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DHS did not reply to The Intercept\u2019s request for additional information prior to publication.<\/p>\n \u201cNumerous agencies of the U.S. government have been tasked with trying to get rid of Mr. Abrego and to cover up the administration\u2019s mistake in sending him to El Salvador,\u201d said Yael Schacher, the director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International. \u201cIn its punitive approach to deportation, the administration undercuts the whole premise of civil immigration law; in its transactional dealings with third countries, it undermines human rights and the protection of refugees worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n The United States\u00a0is pursuing deals with around a third of the world\u2019s nations to expel immigrants to places where they do not hold citizenship. Once exiled, these third-country nationals are sometimes detained, imprisoned, or in danger of being sent back to their countries of origin \u2014 which they may have fled to escape violence, torture, or political persecution.<\/p>\n The nations that the Trump administration is collaborating with to accept these expelled immigrants are some of the\u00a0worst human rights offenders<\/a>\u00a0on the planet.<\/p>\n The Trump administration has expelled\u00a0more than 8,100<\/a>\u00a0people in this manner since January 20, and the U.S. has made arrangements to send people to at least 14 nations, so far, across the globe. Of them, 13 have previously been\u00a0cited<\/a>\u00a0by the State Department for significant human rights abuses.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n