The US government has said it wishes to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man at the center of a row over President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, to Liberia and possibly by month's end, a court filing showed Friday.

The case of Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador in March and then sent back to the United States in June, has become a lightning rod for those opposed to Trump's efforts to carry out mass deportations across the United States.

The Trump administration alleges he is a violent MS-13 gang member involved in smuggling other undocumented migrants.

His lawyers have filed suit contesting his deportation, and a federal judge in August blocked an attempt to send Abrego Garcia, who is married to a US citizen and denies all wrongdoing, to Uganda.

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