Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyer rips ICE plan to deport him to Uganda, whines ‘he doesn’t even speak the language’ — English

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s attorney slammed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to deport the alleged MS-13 gangbanger to Uganda, where “he doesn’t even speak the language” — even though the African country’s official language is English.

Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of his lawyers, pledged to “fight tooth and nail against any form of deportation to Uganda” or nearby countries.

“It is preposterous that they would send him to Africa, to a country where he doesn’t even speak the language, a country with documented human rights violations, when there are so many other options,” he told reporters.

“This family has suffered enough.”

Abrego Garcia, 30, was again detained by ICE Monday, bringing him a step closer to being deported to Uganda.

The Spanish-speaking migrant — who entered the US illegally in 2011 — was also blasted for requiring a translator to share his message with a crowd of supporters moments before he was detained.

He reported to the ICE office in Baltimore just after 7:30 a.m. Monday, after he was released from a Tennessee jail last week as he awaits trial on human smuggling charges.

“Today, ICE law enforcement arrested Kilmar Abrego Garcia and are processing him for deportation,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.

“President Trump is not going to allow this illegal alien, who is an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator to terrorize American citizens any longer.”

Abrego Garcia was brought back to the US in June after being deported to his native El Salvador earlier this year. Last week, he rejected an offer to plead guilty to the smuggling charges.

The Trump administration shipped him off with 260 other reputed gang members after President Trump invoked the use of the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act, which allowed the feds to deport them rapidly without a hearing.

However, there was an “administrative error” in Abrego Garcia’s deportation at the time.

He was also offered deportation to Costa Rica if he admitted to transporting illegal migrants in the US — or risk being sent to Uganda, his lawyers argued in court documents.

“They’re holding Costa Rica as a carrot and using Uganda as a stick,” Sandoval-Moshenberg, said outside the ICE field office in downtown Baltimore.

“They’re weaponizing the immigration system in a way that’s completely unconstitutional.”

ICE detained Abrego Garcia shortly after he reported for a scheduled check-in.

The Salvadoran citizen later filed a lawsuit in a Maryland federal court requesting an order to halt his deportation unless he had had the chance to contest it, his lawyer said.

“I expect there’s going to be a status conference very promptly, and we’re going to ask for an interim order that he not be deported, pending his due process rights to contest deportation to any particular country,” Sandoval-Moshenberg said.

Abrego Garcia’s smuggling allegations stem from a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee, where he was pulled over on a highway with eight passengers in the car that contained no luggage.

The responding cops suspected he was smuggling the group, but didn’t charge him.

Abrego Garcia was seen in body-cam footage during the incident speaking broken English with the responding officer.

His wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, also previously accused him of beating her. She has since become one of the leading voices publicly advocating for his innocence.

His lawyers have previously denied the smuggling allegations, and Abrego Garcia himself has claimed not to have ties to MS-13.

DHS didn’t respond to The Post’s questions about the exact location Abrego Garcia will be held in Uganda.