Immigration and Customs Enforcement has told Kilmar Abrego Garcia to report to the Baltimore field office Monday morning as it plans to deport him to Uganda, according to a new court filing Saturday morning.

The Salvadoran native and Beltsville resident, once wrongfully deported then returned to the U.S. to face criminal charges, was released from pretrial detention in Tennessee and allowed to return to his family in Maryland only Friday.

Albrego Garcia will be at the building at 8 am for his ICE check in, according to CASA.

His release, granted after a judge determined he did not pose a threat to public safety or flight risk, had been delayed for nearly two months at the request of his attorneys after the Trump administration publicly said it would take him into ICE custody and move to deport him if he were released.

“The government’s decision to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes it painfully clear that they are using the immigration system to punish him for exercising his constitutional rights,” the family civil attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg said on Saturday. “There is a perfectly reasonable option available, Costa Rica, where his family can visit him easily, but instead they are attempting to send him halfway across the world to a country with documented human rights abuses and where he does not even speak the language. This is not justice; it is retaliation.”

On Thursday, the government offered Abrego Garcia assurance that it would remove him to Costa Rica if he agreed to delay his pretrial release, plead guilty to criminal smuggling charges and serve any sentence imposed by the court, according to the filing.

It included a letter from a Costa Rican official stating the country planned to provide refugee status or residency to him and said it would not send him back to his home country of El Salvador. Abrego Garcia was granted protection from deportation to El Salvador in 2019 due to threats of gang persecution.

He declined the offer.

At 4 p.m. Friday, Principal Legal Adviser for ICE Charles Wall sent Abrego Garcia’s legal counsel an email telling him to report to the Baltimore field office Monday, according to the filing.

One minute later, another email.

“Please let this email serve as notice that DHS may remove your client, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, to Uganda no earlier than 72 hours from now (absent weekends),” Wall wrote.

The exchange represents “further coercive actions that leave little doubt that the entire federal government is engaged in a coordinated effort to punish Mr. Abrego for fighting back against its unlawful conduct,” attorney Sean Hecker wrote the court Saturday morning.

ICE and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Jaime Contreras, a Latino Caucus leader, criticized the latest action.

“Trump’s unrelenting and inhumane hunt to single out an individual and ignoring court decisions is not just un-constitutional, but puts all Americans in danger. Deporting Kilmar Garcia halfway around the world is a shameful and is a shocking picture for the entire world to see that damages our standing in the world even further. The bottom line is that Kilmar deserves to be free.”

In May, Contreras joined Rep. Glenn Ivey and others in El Salvador to demand justice for Abrego Garcia. During the delegation, the group met with families of victims of human rights abuses from El Salvador and family members of the Venezuelans who got deported. Salvadorian authorities blocked their visit, refusing access to Garcia.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who also traveled to El Salvador and was able to meet with Abrego Garcia, continued pushing for the Maryland man’s day in court.

“Kilmar Abrego Garcia deserves his day in court. But Trump Administration officials — who continue to make public statements about his case that have been expressly repudiated by the courts — would rather insult judges and circumvent our justice system than uphold people’s constitutional rights,” Van Hollen said.

Gov. Wes Moore echoed other Democrats in Maryland on Friday mentioning the need to honor due process in this case, saying “everyone receives proper notice of the allegations against them and has an opportunity to be heard.”

He added the case was never about one person but about the laws that govern all people in this country.

“Several courts have made decisions in this case, and we expect the Trump administration to follow those decisions,” he said.

On Saturday, after finding out the latest developments in the case, his office declined to comment.

Abrego Garcia is facing criminal charges stemming from a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee. He was driving an SUV with several other men inside and told officers he was taking them to a construction job. Officers suspected he may have been transporting them as part of a trafficking operation but did not arrest him, charge him or investigate the incident further.

Prosecutors filed charges in May doubling down on the Trump administration’s claim that he is a dangerous gang member and human trafficker, claims that he, his family and attorneys deny. The government brought him back from El Salvador, where it had deported him in March in defiance of a 2019 court order, in June to face the charges.

The court filing Saturday comes days after Abrego Garcia’s attorneys asked the judge to dismiss the criminal case, citing “vindictive and selective prosecution.”

“The government is attempting to use this case—and this Court—to punish Mr. Abrego for successfully fighting his unlawful removal. That is a constitutional violation of the most basic sort," Hecker wrote the court on Tuesday.

“Kilmar for the first time in 160 days was able to hug and kiss his wife, children and other family members. That feeling of joy and reunion should not last 72 hours,” said Jossie Flor Sapunar, spokesperson for CASA. “The Trump administration has made it clear their intentions to separate this Maryland dad from his babies.”

CASA is planning a prayer vigil rally Monday at 7 a.m. outside the George H. Fallon Federal Building, where the Baltimore ICE field office is located.

“While this has been unimaginably horrible, Kilmar and his family through their faith in God have fought back and we will fight with them,” Sapunar said. “It’s been tough but their faith has kept them strong to fight for these 160 days. Monday is another battle in the fight for his complete liberation.”

“I’m grateful that Kilmar has been released, but this tragic ordeal is bigger than one person — it’s about upholding the due process owed to every American,” Baltimore City Councilwoman Phylicia Porter said. “This victory feels short-lived when he must report to ICE on Monday, a stark reminder that our system continues to undermine those very rights.”