The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, says he won the return Kilmar Abrego García To the United States, after Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters that “it depends on El Salvador” if the man Deported by mistake To a prison in El Salvador he returns to the United States
Bukele and Bondi made the comments at the Oval office throughout President Trump, as the two world leaders. Around the weekend, the Department of Justice said in judicial documents that they were willing to take “all the steps available to eliminate any domestic obstacle” to facilitate their return.
“How can I return it to the United States?” Bukele asked the press. “I consider it smuggled in the United States or what do I do? Of course, I will not do it. The question is absurd.”
Bukele referred to Abrego García as a “terrorist” and said: “I don’t have the power to return it to the United States.”
Bondi, speaking before Bukele, said “depends on El Salvador if they want to return it.” Bondi said that “first of all, it was illegally in our country.”
“That doesn’t depend on us,” Bondi said. “The Supreme Court ruled, president, that if El Salvador wants to return it … we would facilitate it, which means providing a plane.”
But the Supreme Court He did not offer a qualifier or if El Salvador wants to return to Abrego García. The Court ruled that an order of the lower court adequately required that the Government “facilitate” its release from the custody of El Salvador. The Supreme Court said Thursday that the Trump administration must facilitate the liberation of man, who lives in Marylandof custody, but ordered additional processes before a Federal District Court.
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The American District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the Department of Justice to provide daily updates about their efforts to return to Abrego García. In Monday’s presentation, the Department of Justice said the comments of the Bukele Oval Office. The film also said that “the DHS does not have the authority to extract an alien from the domestic custody of a foreign nation.”
Abrego García’s lawyers insist that he has no affiliation with MS-13, and has never fallen or convicted of criminal crimes in the United States or the Savior. The Trump administration admitted That his deportation to the high security prison in El Salvador known as CECOT was an “administrative error.”
“I understand that I have understood the presentation of official reports of our Embassy in San Salvador that Abrego García is currently being held at the Center for Terrorism Confinio in El Salvador,” said Michael G. Kozak, a senior state department official, in a Friday court. “He is alive and sure in that installation. He is detained in accordance with the sovereign domestic authority of El Salvador.”
In a statement after the meeting, Abrego García’s wife, Jennifer Vásquez Sura, said: “Trump and Bukele administrations continue to play political games with their life.”
The Trump administration sent deportation flights with dozens of foreign citizens describing as members of the train gangs of Aragua and MS-13. Antique Analysis for “60 minutes“Last week he showed that 75% of Venezuelans sent to Cecot in El Salvador had no criminal record. At least 22% of men in the criminal record list here in the United States or abroad. The vast majority are not violent. Murder, violation, assault and kidnapping.
Among those deported was Abrego García, who lives in Maryland with his wife and children. He is a native or El Salvador, and his wife is an American citizen.
Trump also expressed his openness to send convicted or violent crimes condemned or violent to prisons in El Salvador, saying that his administration is studying the laws at this time to see if that is possible. Trump said the United States can cooperate with Bukele to rehabilitate criminals for “less money.”
“If he is a criminal of his own harvest, I have no problem,” he said. “We are studying the laws at this time, Pam [Bondi] He is studying. If we can do that, that’s good. “
Legal scholars say that sending US citizens to prisons abroad brings serious constitutional conerns. In a 1936 case, Valentine v. The United States, the Supreme Court determined that a president cannot extradite an American citizen exception for a Congress Law.
Bukele, a hard crime leader, said it was an “honor to be here” and “we are very anxious to help” the arrest of crime and terrorism. Bukele told Mr. Trump what he is doing with the border is “remarkable”, praising lunch at crosses on the southern border of the United States. Under Bukele’s mandate, El Salvador has seen a dramatic decrease in its crime rate.
When announcing his meeting with Bikele, Trump said in a social position of truth, that his nations “are working closely together to eradicate terrorist organizations and build a future of prosperity.”
“President Bukele has gently accepted the custody of his nations, some of the most violent alien enemies in the world and, in particular, the United States,” Trump wrote. “These barbarians are now in the custody of El Salvador, a proud and sovereign nation, and their future depends on President B and his government. They never threaten or threaten our citizens!”
Melissa Quinn contributed to this report.