Kilmar Abrego Garcia transferred to Pa. detention center, lawyers say

By Maggie Trovato, Baltimore Sun

BALTIMORE — Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been transferred to a detention center in Central Pennsylvania while he awaits immigration proceedings, according to federal court documents filed by his attorneys Friday.

In a status update, Abrego Garcia’s defense said it was notified Friday that its client was transferred to Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, earlier that morning.

The Salvadoran man — who lived in Maryland for more than a decade before he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year — was previously detained at the Farmville Detention Center in Virginia.

Abrego Garcia’s attorneys, who are based in Nashville, Tennessee, and New York, said in the court filing that his detainment in Virginia “placed substantial burdens”