US President Donald Trump meets with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on April 14, 2025.
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The Trump administration announced on Monday that it was not authorized to force El Salvador to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a notorious prison to the United States, and the decision of the US Court of Justice, which states that this should happen.
This lawsuit in a court registration came hours after El Salvador President Nayib Bukele reporters in the White House said that he would not voluntarily return Abrego Garcia.
The inhabitant of Maryland was violently deported to his home country in March because the Trump government granted.
Joseph Mazzara, reigning General Counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, said in the new registration: “DHS has set processes to take steps to remove domestic obstacles that would otherwise prevent an alien to the United States legally.”
“DHS has no authority to violently withdraw a foreign custody of a foreign confident nation,” said Mazzara in the submission of the US district court in Maryland.
Mazzara noticed in the same registration to judge Paula Xinis Bukeles statements about Abrego Garcia, which was made during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
“The question is absurd,” said Bukele when he was asked if he was sent off the prison.
“How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?” Said bukel. “I don't have the power to bring him back to the United States.”
Top officials of the Trump government at the same meeting suggested that Xinis' demand do not meet that officials make it easier to return to Abego Garcia despite the district and top court.
The Trump administration claims that the married father of three children is a gang member and pointed out a statement of a US immigration judge from 2019.
The US representatives Nydia Velazquez, DN.Y., Left, and Juan Vargas, D-Calif.
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The administration also argues that it has no legal responsibility to get it back
On Thursday, the Supreme Court confirmed the original arrangement of Xinis that the administration “relieved” the return of Abrego Garcia, but asked her to clarify it.
Xinis quickly did so and announced the Trump government on Friday that it should show her daily updates of Abrego Garcia's status and her efforts to get it back.
Bukele suggested not to send Abrego Garcia to the USA, even if Trump asked.
“I mean, we don't like to let terrorists to our country,” said the Salvadoranian president.
“We have just transformed the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the western hemisphere and you want us to release criminals again so that we are the murder capital of the world again?” Said bukel.
“That won't happen.”
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Trump then said that the media would “love” to relieve criminals to the United States and added that the media are “sick people”.
He also said that he wanted Bukele to accept as many criminals as possible.
After Trump had threw the CNN reporter who asked about Abrego Garcia, the question of his return to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Bondi said Abrego Garcia, who has never been convicted of a crime in the United States, was found to be a member of the gang MS-13, which was illegal in the country.
Xinis said there is no evidence that he is a gang member.
“This is due to El Salvador if you want to give him back. It's not up to us,” said Bondi.
She said that the decision of the Supreme Court on Abrego Garcia only demands that the Trump government make “its return” easier, which means to deliver an airplane “if El Salvador decides to return it.
Trump then asked the Top White House consultant Stephen Miller.
“He is a citizen of El Salvador,” said Miller. “So it is very arrogant that American media indicate that we would even say El Salvador how to deal with their own citizens.”
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio nodded at Miller's interpretation of the judgment of the Supreme Court.
After Bukele said that he would not release Abrego Garcia, Rubio said: “I don't understand what the confusion is.”
“This person is a citizen of El Salvador,” said Rubio. “He was illegally in the United States and was brought back to his country. There they deport people back to their country of origin.”
“The United States' foreign policy is carried out by the United States President, not by a court,” said Rubio. “And no court in the United States has the right to carry out a foreign policy in the United States, it's so easy. End of history.”
When the CNN reporter tried to ask Trump a follow-up question, the president replied: “How long do we have to answer this question from you?”
“Why don't you just say: Isn't it wonderful that we keep criminals away from our country?” Said Trump.
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