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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran immigrant who was rearrested last week as officials sought to deport him for a second time, has asked a judge to grant him asylum, his lawyers said Wednesday, opening up what amounted to a new legal avenue for him to remain in the United States.

The revelation came during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Maryland that was held to discuss the next steps in a separate legal challenge that his lawyers filed Monday in their effort to stop the administration from carrying out his second deportation − this one to Uganda.

The asylum request, submitted to a Maryland immigration judge, added to the increasingly complex web of cases that Abrego Garcia has found himself involved in since March, when the Trump administration deported him in

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