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mahatmakanejeeves

(67,035 posts) Sun Oct 12, 2025, 05:14 PM 22 hrs ago

Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency.

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Julie DiCaro
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So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/politics/abrego-garcia-hearing.html

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.
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October 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS wonâ€™t agree to send him there because itâ€™s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
— Julie DiCaro (@juliedicaro.bsky.social) 2025-10-12T20:20:40.856Z

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Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves 22 hrs ago OP

I hope it works out for him. hlthe2b 22 hrs ago #1

If you're retired and can prove you have a minimum passive income, you can get a visa Fiendish Thingy 21 hrs ago #2

Costa Rica Retirement Visa Florida Dem 19 hrs ago #9

No to Costa Rica ? dweller 21 hrs ago #3

They Don't Want Him Anywhere Deep State Witch 21 hrs ago #4

He and his lawyer should put his story on film before he is deported but not release it until he's safe. nt in2herbs 20 hrs ago #6

This poor man and family. Tom Dyer 20 hrs ago #5

How much has this prosecution of Senior Garcia cosr? Botany 19 hrs ago #7

I imagine he's had quite enough of the USA Warpy 19 hrs ago #8

They got rid of having a standing army awhile ago IbogaProject 16 hrs ago #10

hlthe2b

(111,664 posts)

1. I hope it works out for him.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Oct 12, 2025, 05:21 PM

22 hrs ago

I honestly can't help but wonder if they'd give me residency too. Not really kidding... Every day another horror...

Fiendish Thingy

(20,972 posts)

2. If you're retired and can prove you have a minimum passive income, you can get a visa

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 12, 2025, 05:36 PM

21 hrs ago

I think it’s around $2000-3000/mo minimum income.

I’m pretty sure that’s true of Costa Rica- there’s lots of you tube videos on the easiest places to immigrate to.

Florida Dem

(52 posts)

9. Costa Rica Retirement Visa

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #2)

Sun Oct 12, 2025, 07:54 PM

19 hrs ago

Only $1K required. It's one of the places on my list when I put this place in my rearview mirror in a few years. It was kind of my stomping grounds when I was a younger man.

dweller

(27,299 posts)

3. No to Costa Rica ?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Oct 12, 2025, 05:45 PM

21 hrs ago

Then how about Puerto Rico ?

since most repugs think that’s a foreign shithole country …

🤔

✌🏻

Deep State Witch

(12,312 posts)

4. They Don't Want Him Anywhere

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Oct 12, 2025, 06:16 PM

21 hrs ago

Where he can get his story out. They made his deportation to Costa Rica conditional on his pleading guilty to human trafficking. If he is deported to Costa Rica, I hope that this psycho administration allows his wife and children to join him.

in2herbs

(3,993 posts)

6. He and his lawyer should put his story on film before he is deported but not release it until he's safe. nt

Reply to Deep State Witch (Reply #4)

Sun Oct 12, 2025, 06:58 PM

20 hrs ago

Tom Dyer

(279 posts)

5. This poor man and family.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Oct 12, 2025, 06:33 PM

20 hrs ago

He’s not a toy for ignorant cretins to salivate over and hate, but they’re doing that to human beings to prove something so wrong and cruel.

And to “win”. WIN!!!!

The saddest thing to watch The United States from here.

Botany

(75,522 posts)

7. How much has this prosecution of Senior Garcia cosr?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Oct 12, 2025, 07:37 PM

19 hrs ago

Got to be > a million dollars.

Warpy

(114,021 posts)

8. I imagine he's had quite enough of the USA

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Oct 12, 2025, 07:51 PM

19 hrs ago

and realizes he will never be safe from that twisted, vicious troll Stephen Miller as long as Miller is infecting the government.

Costa Rica is supposed to be a good place to live.

IbogaProject

(5,156 posts)

10. They got rid of having a standing army awhile ago

Reply to Warpy (Reply #8)

Sun Oct 12, 2025, 11:13 PM

16 hrs ago

And their economy has reaped the benefits.

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