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.

Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia will ask an immigration judge to reopen his case and seek asylum, his lawyers told a federal judge on Wednesday, as the Trump administration remains restricted from removing the illegal immigrant quickly pending a habeas corpus hearing in October.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers said he would seek asylum as he appeared in court to fight an effort to deport him.