JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Officially Headed To Africa After Final Ruling

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is leaving on a jet plane, and no one knows if he’ll be back again.

Yet the U.S. Department of Homeland Security appeared sure that the MS-13 gang member and illegal immigrant is headed to Africa following a “final order of removal” and refusal by a judge to reopen Garcia’s case.

The former “Maryland man” warned that he faced “imminent removal to Uganda” after being returned to the U.S. from his native El Salvador only to go to trial for human trafficking charges.

“His lawyers tried to fight his removal from the U.S., but one thing is certain: this Salvadoran man is not going to be able to remain in our country. He will never be allowed to prey on innocent Americans again,” DHS announced on X Thursday.

Immigration Judge Philip P. Taylor found “insufficient evidence” that the Trump administration is sure to send Garcia to Uganda, denying an emergency motion to stay his deportation proceedings.

But in an Aug. 25 social media post, DHS stated that the Salvadoran national “will be processed for removal to Uganda.”

In his ruling, Taylor wrote that Abrego “has not submitted evidence to show that the Department has presented him with a formal notice of removal or any other document showing its intent to remove him to Uganda.”

He said a government lawyer said it “may remove him to Uganda,” but that Garcia may also be sent to Eswatini or Costa Rica.

Regardless of his new home, Garcia’s bid to seek permanent legal residency via the courts has come to an end.

The ruling ends a tumultuous narrative around the Trump administration’s deportation agenda following Garcia’s arrest in March. He was sent to a supermax prison in El Salvador, but a judge ruled that the deportation violated a 2019 agreement allowing Garcia to stay in the U.S. out of fear for his life amid threats by fellow gang members.

DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin reminded social media users that Democratic lawmakers eagerly journeyed overseas to meet with Garcia in El Salvador despite evidence suggesting that he was involved in a human smuggling ring.

“Never forget the Democrats flew to a foreign land on the US taxpayer’s dime to break bread with this terrorist gang member and visit him in prison. While they continue to fight for criminal illegal aliens, we will continue to put the safety of the American people FIRST,” the DHS statement read.

The Trump administration first denied that it had the ability to return Garcia from El Salvador, doing so only after it had secured a warrant for his arrest on trafficking related to a 2022 arrest in Tennessee. Garcia declared himself not guilty and was released on bond, but was quickly rearrested by immigration authorities and processed for deportation.