El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, will not release Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien deported from the U.S. to El Salvador.
“How can I return him to the United States?” Bukele said when asked whether he would return Abrego Garcia, who had been living in Maryland until March.
“Can I smuggle him into the United States, or what do I do? Of course I’m not going to do it. The question is preposterous,” Bukele told reporters while sitting next to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office during a visit to the White House on Monday.
After Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to bring the illegal alien back to the U.S. on grounds that the man had “protected legal status” in the U.S. and was deported due to an “administrative error.”
“I don’t have the power to return…
