El Salvador's president says he won't return mistakenly deported man to U.S.
President Nayib Bukele told reporters he would not return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man the Justice Department said it mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele told reporters during a meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday that he wouldn't return a man the Justice Department said it had mistakenly deported to his country.
"How can I return him to the United States? Like if I smuggle him into the United States?" Bukele said, sitting beside Trump in the Oval Office, when he was asked whether he’d return Kilmar Abrego Garcia. "Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous."
Asked whether he’d be released in his own country, he said, “We’re not very fond of releasing terrorists.”
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Trump then turned to Bukele and said of the assembled reporters: "They'd love to have a criminal released into our country. These are sick people."
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