Fascist regime continues to do fascist things.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who reunited with his family last week after 160 days apart following his mistaken deportation to El Salvador, was taken into ICE custody on Monday after an immigration check-in, his attorney said.

The check-in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Baltimore was part of the conditions of his release from federal custody on parole on Friday.

While such meetings are usually routine and are meant for case updates, Abrego’s attorneys said they expected he would be taken into ICE custody during the check-in after the Trump administration announced over the weekend its intention to deport him to Uganda.

To Uganda ffs – why not Antarctica or a tiny atoll in the Pacific?

“There was no need to take him into ICE detention. … The only reason they took him into detention was to punish him,” for using his constitutional right to speak up and fight proceedings, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of Abrego’s attorneys, said Monday morning.

Sandoval-Moshenberg said on Friday that a notice said the 8 a.m. meeting on Monday would be for an interview. “Clearly that was false,” he added.

As far as I know none of this is legal. ICE isn’t supposed to lie about what it’s doing or where it’s sending people.

“The fact that they’re holding Costa Rica as a carrot and using Uganda as a stick to try to coerce him to plead guilty to a crime is such clear evidence that they’re weaponizing the immigration system in a matter that is completely unconstitutional, and specifically weaponizing the decision of which country they send him to,” Sandoval-Moshenberg said.

And this is what an authoritarian state does. The US is not supposed to be an authoritarian state! It has not always lived up to its own ideals, to put it mildly, but this Stalinist crap is a whole new level.