ICE tells Kilmar Abrego Garcia he'll be deported to tiny African country

"Dear Mr. Abrego Garcia," the notice reads, "As you know, the United States seeks to remove you from the United States based on your final order of removal. Currently, you are designated to be removed to Uganda. Your attorney has informed us, however, that you fear persecution or torture in Uganda."

The ICE notice states, "That claim of fear is hard to take seriously, especially given that you have claimed (through your attorneys) that you fear persecution or torture in at least 22 different countries." 

The notice lists 22 countries, including El Salvador, Uganda and twenty Latin American countries. 

"Nonetheless," the notice states, "we hereby notify you that your new country of removal is Eswatini, Africa." 

DHS also reposted a copy of the notification on its official X account with the caption, "Homie is afraid of the entire western hemisphere."

He is currently being kept at an immigration detention center in Virginia while his case is ongoing after U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee, ruled to temporarily block Abrego Garcia's deportation to Uganda. 

Chris Newman, an attorney for Abrego Garcia's family, has categorically denied DHS' allegations, telling Fox News Digital, "None of those things are true, full stop."

He said that "in essence" what the Trump administration has done "is to use the highest office in the land to blackmail an innocent man into sacrificing his constitutional rights."