Trump Administration Is Still Trying to Figure Out Where to Deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Attorney for the federal government said there are other options if Eswatini falls through.

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, left, and her husband Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Immigration and Customs Enforcement mistakenly notified Abrego Garcia that it intended to deport him to Ghana. Stephanie Scarbrough/AP

The Trump administration is struggling to find an African nation that will take Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in its second attempt to deport him.

The Department of Homeland Security has notified Abrego Garcia that he would be deported to Eswatini, Uganda and Ghana. But none of those countries have actually agreed to accept the man whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador has extended into several months-long legal battles with the federal government that required the intervention of the Supreme Court.

Testifying in a federal court Friday, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said he learned from officials at DHS and the Department of State this week that Uganda and Eswatini, an absolute monarchy formerly known as Swaziland, had declined to accept Abrego Garcia.