In an appearance at the White House with co-president Trump, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador said his country would not order the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported, and Donald’s administration previously admitted that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who has a wife and child, was deported in “error.”
Via The New York Times:
The Trump administration has been fighting for days against a judge’s order to return a wrongfully deported Maryland man to the United States. But this meeting in the Oval Office was the most clear example yet that Trump had no intention of returning Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States, despite the Supreme Court instructions the U.S. government to take steps to return the Salvadoran migrant. Trump and Stephen Miller essentially scoffed at the Supreme Court’s ability to direct the administration to take any action on foreign policy and made clear that if anyone was going to return Garcia to the United States, it would have to be Bukele. Bukele rejected any notion he would return the father of three who has no criminal record.
Michael Kozak, a senior official in the State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, said yesterday that Garcia is “alive” but will remain at the notorious mega-torture prison.
