El Salvador President Nayib Bukele told President Donald Trump and an audience at the White House Monday he has no intention of returning deported Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S.
Bukele said, “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.”
Garcia was deported in what someone in the Justice Department purported was a mistake based on court rulings about the man’s presence in the U.S. The case went to the Supreme Court, which ruled that the administration must “facilitate” his return.
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