Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has come to encapsulate much of President Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda, say he wants to seek asylum in the United States.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador and later brought back to the US to face federal criminal charges, has renewed his bid for asylum in the United States as the Trump administration’s effort to deport him to Uganda intensifies.