El Salvador's leader won't return man deported from US in error

Nayib Bukele has won praise from Donald Trump for imprisoning some "very bad people" deported from the US.

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President Nayib Bukele made the comments during a meeting on Monday at the White House with Donald Trump, with whom he shares a strong relationship.

The US Supreme Court ruled last week that the Trump administration must "facilitate" the return of Mr Ábrego García, who was living in Maryland with his family and was granted protection from deportation by a court in 2019.

The Trump administration argues it cannot bring him home, and Attorney General Pam Bondi said it is "up to El Salvador if they want to return him".

Trump praised Bukele for a new partnership under which the US can deport people it alleges are gang members to the Central American nation. Mr Ábrego García, whose lawyer said he is not a gang member, was among 238 Venezuelans and 23 Salvadorans the Trump administration deported to El Salvador's Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot).

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