Kilmar Abrego Garcia has suffered enough. After fleeing gang violence in El Salvador, he sought protection in the United States and was granted relief from deportation in 2019. But despite that ruling, Kilmar was wrongfully deported in March—then detained again after returning. Now, he’s being held in the remote Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania, where his legal team says it’s much harder to access and represent him.

No one should be denied the right to legal counsel—especially not someone who has already faced wrongful deportation once.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) claims this transfer will improve access, but that’s not true. Kilmar’s attorneys, based in Nashville and New York, now face greater travel barriers and fewer opportunities to meet with him. This move looks less like due process and more like punishment.

To make matters worse, ICE is now trying to deport Kilmar again—this time to the African country of Eswatini, where he has no family, no ties, and no safety net. That’s not justice. That’s exile.

Kilmar’s case has raised serious concerns about due process, profiling, and the weaponization of detention transfers to silence and isolate people. We can’t allow ICE to quietly disappear people into faraway facilities where they are cut off from help, from family, and from fair representation.

We demand that ICE immediately release Kilmar Abrego Garcia from detention at Moshannon Valley. He deserves a fair chance to fight his case in freedom—not from behind the walls of a remote facility.

Sign this petition to tell the Department of Homeland Security and ICE:
Release Kilmar now.

Photo: AP/Stephanie Scarbrough