The Trump administration has identified a new country where it intends to imminently send Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador earlier this year, the Department of Justice said in a court filing Friday.

The West African nation of Liberia has agreed to accept Abrego Garcia, the DOJ officials said , and the Department of Homeland Security is aiming for a removal date as early as Oct. 31.

“Although [Abrego Garcia] has identified more than twenty countries that he purports to fear would persecute or torture him if he were removed there, Liberia is not on that list,” DOJ lawyers wrote. “Liberia is a thriving democracy and one of the United States’s closest partners on the African continent.”

The Trump administration expects to file further notices pertai

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