President Donald Trump El Salvador's president, senior adviser and Nayeb Bokli said Monday that he had no basis for returning a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month.
The Trump administration officials emphasized that Kalam Abrago Garcia, who was sent to the notorious gang jail in El Salvador, was a citizen of the country and had no one to say in his future. And Bokel, who has been an important partner for the Trump administration in exile efforts, said, “Of course I am not going”, he was left back to the US soil.
“The question is ridiculous,” said Bokil. “I don't have the option to return it to the United States.”
Should El Salvador like Return Abrago GarciaAttorney General Palm Bondi said, “The United States will” provide its convenience, which means the aircraft will be provided. “
During a news conference during a news conference during a photo of Kulmar Abrago Garcia, a member of Congress's Spanish Cox held a photo during a news conference during a news conference to discuss Abbagrago Garcia and Malik Badri D in the Canon House Office Building in Washington, DC on April 9, 2025. The Congress's Hispanic Cox organized a news conference to deport Maryland resident Kalmar Abrago Garcia in Maryland's maximum security prison prison center (CECOT) in El Salvador, claiming the Trump administration as a “administrative mistake”, but refuses to return to the state.
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But he added: “He was illegally in our country.”
The meeting took place when the El Salvador has been an important lunch of the US administration's widespread deportation operation.
Since March, El Salvador has accused more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants-the Trump administration officials have accused the group of activities and violent crimes, put it in the country's notorious security gang jail just outside the capital San Salvador. It is also being organized by Abrago Garcia, who has not returned to the United States despite a court order.
It has caused a crackdown on the powerful street groups of the country, which is very popular in the El Salvador, which is very popular in the El Salvador, which has offered little evidence for his claims that Venezuela's immigrants were in fact a gang member, and not the gang members.
Asked if they had any concerns about the prison where exiles were being held, Trump told reporters earlier Sunday that Bocal was doing a “terrific job”.
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“He is taking care of a lot of problems that we have that we will not really be able to take care of the cost,” said Trump. “And he is really doing, he has been amazing. We have some very bad people in this prison. People who should never have been allowed to be in our country.”
Since the visit of Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio in February, the Bokel-Joe's government has arrested more than 84,000 people as part of its three-year crackdown on groups-made it clear that he is ready to assist the Trump administration in his deportation ambitions.
Bocal signed an agreement under which the United States will pay about $ 6 million to Venezuela's migrants to a year to imprison Venezuela. When a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to go to the flight to El Salvador, Bokil wrote on social media: “Opse … too late.”
Although other judges ruled against the Trump administration, this month, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Trump to use a law of the 18th -century war, the Allen enemy act, so that immigrants could be deported. Rubio said on Sunday that the judges insisted that the court hearing would be heard before the migrants were removed from the United States at the end of the weekend, the administration claims that they are members of MS13 and train de Aragwa Gang El Salvador, Rubio said on Sunday.
“We have also received cooperation in other countries that some of those people, some of these people, are ready to take the most dangerous criminals,” Rubio said during a cabinet meeting on Thursday. Bokli, Rubio added, “In this regard, he has been a good friend for the United States. These are the worst people you face.”
Trump has openly said that he will also be in favor of El Salvador who will take American citizens who have committed violent crimes, though he added, “I will do it only according to the law.” It is unclear whether American citizens can be deported elsewhere. “Citizens will be” disgusting, violent criminals who have repeatedly broken the laws of our nation, “said Levit.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has called on the administration to “facilitate” the return of Abrago Garcia, who had ordered the immigration court to stop exile in their home country on the fear of collective persecution. Levit said that the administration's job is to “provide a return facility, not to affect the return”, but Trump indicated after Friday that if the High Court judges asked to bring it back, they would return to Abrago Garcia to the United States.
“I have a lot of respect for the Supreme Court,” Trump told reporters traveling to Air Force One. ” Government lawyers indicated a legal filing on Saturday that Abrago Garcia is in the Salvador, but did not explain what steps the administration had taken to return it to the United States on Sunday, the government has said that it is not necessary to file anything on Saturday.
Although Bokley's crackdown on groups has popular support, the country has been in an emergency that suspends some basic rights for three years. He built a massive prison, which is located just outside the San Salvador in the town of Tekoloka, to organize the groups associated with the crackdown.
One part of his offer to get Venezuela was that the United States also sends back some gang leaders of the Salvador. In February, his ambassador to the United States, Melina Meyerga, said in a radio program that gang leaders in El Salvador face justice.
Bocal can also relieve the recent 10 TA revenue imposed by Trump, using the argument that it weakens the economy in which Bocal is trying to strengthen.
“It is very important that (this visit) is not limited to diplomatic gestures, but it is translated into concrete steps that benefit the salvaders abroad and home,” said Kaiser Ravis, director of the El Salvador Immigrant Agenda Association.
Popularists who successfully produced their pictures through the media, Bokil and Trump, belong to different races, but show similar trends to how they belong to the press, political opposition and justice system in their own countries.
Bokli Trump came to power in the middle of the first term and had a straightforward relationship with the US leader. Trump had the most related to immigration and, under Bokli, the number of salvaders leading to the US border declined.
At the beginning of the Biden administration, Bokli's relations with the United States became more complicated, which was openly criticized by some of his anti -Democratic measures. In the past, Trump has also shown some irritation with Bokel, and El Salvador has accused him of sending people to the United States and reducing his crime rate.
“She's justice,” Trump said about Bokel at an election rally last year, “We are working with our people who are causing problems and crimes. ' “He's not working with them. He is throwing them into the United States and their crime rate, their murder rate is 72 % lower. “
Prior to the arrival of Bokel in Washington, the State Department updated its travel advisory for El Salvador in Level 1, which is for countries that are considered safest for US citizens. Advisory notes that in the past three years, the activities of the group, and the killings and other violent crimes have decreased.