Within days of being released from jail after five months behind bars, Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be deported to Uganda soon.

Abrego Garcia, 30, was ordered to report to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Baltimore on Monday, with a chance he could be deported to Uganda if he does not accept a plea deal, according to his attorney, Sean Hecker.

CASA, a Maryland-based immigrant and Latino advocacy organization, has planned a rally and vigil in front of the ICE office at 6:30 a.m. Monday, according to an announcement.

“Of course, the Trump administration is not done,” the announcement said. “While this crisis has been unimaginably horrible, Kilmar and his family, through their faith in God, have fought back, and we will continue to fight with them.”

Abrego Garcia, an El Salvador native and father of three who lived in Prince George’s County, was released from a jail in Tennessee on Friday after U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara D. Holmes ordered his release and return to Maryland under his brother’s custody.

He was originally detained in a Salvadoran mega-prison for a mistaken deportation until June, when he was detained for human smuggling charges in Tennessee.

Abrego Garcia’s lawyer, Sean Hecker, moved to dismiss the smuggling charges as “vindictive and selective prosecution.” Court documents revealed the government offered Abrego Garcia deportation to Costa Rica if he pleaded guilty to the smuggling charges.

Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen said he met with Abrego Garcia Sunday morning, assuring him that he and others are fighting to prevent his deportation.

“The federal courts and public outcry forced the administration to bring Abrego Garcia back to Maryland, but Trump’s cronies continue to lie about the facts in his case and are engaged in a malicious abuse of power as they threaten to deport him to Uganda — to block his chance to defend himself against the new charges,” Van Hollen said. “As I told Kilmar and his wife Jennifer, we will stay in this fight for justice and due process because if his rights are denied, the rights of everyone else are put at risk.”

After his release on Friday, a White House spokeswoman, Abigail Jackson, referred to Abrego Garcia as “a criminal illegal alien, wife-beater, and an MS-13 gang member.”

“It’s an insult to his victims that this left-wing magistrate intervened to put him back on the streets,” she said. “Abrego Garcia will be subject to ankle monitoring to ensure the safety of the American public until further action can be taken.”

Abrego Garcia was granted asylum and a withholding of removal by an immigration judge in 2019, which protected him from deportation because he would face gang violence if he returned to El Salvador.

After being deported to a Salvadoran prison in March, Abrego Garcia said he was psychologically tortured and beaten.

An official with the Trump administration admitted that his deportation in March was an “administrative error.” The U.S. government has contended that Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 gang member.

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