The Trump administration on Friday moved to dissolve a preliminary injunction that bars Kilmar Abrego Garcia , a Salvadoran national, from removal, clearing the path for his deportation to Liberia .

Abrego Garcia’s lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, told Newsweek in an email statement, in part, on Saturday evening: “We’ll be filing our opposition to the motion on Friday.”

Why It Matters

Abrego Garcia’s immigration story has been in the spotlight since March when the Trump administration sent him to the high-security CECOT prison in El Salvador in what was deemed an administrative error. He was returned to the United States in June after a months-long court fight and now faces human smuggling charges, which he denies, stemming from a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee.

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