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(NewsNation) — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Monday that helium would not instrumentality the Maryland antheral who was mistakenly sent to the Central American federation contempt a U.S. Supreme Court order that the Trump medication should facilitate his return.
“How tin I instrumentality him to the United States? I smuggle him into the United States? Of course, I’m not going to bash it," Bukele said during a meeting with President Donald Trump erstwhile helium was asked astir returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a notorious Salvadoran situation wherever he's been held since March.
"The question is preposterous. We're not precise fond of releasing terrorists," Bukele added.
Trump referred questions astir Abrego Garcia to Attorney General Pam Bondi, who said helium was illegally successful the U.S. and that courts person ruled that Abrego Garcia was a subordinate of the MS-13 gang.
“That’s up to El Salvador if they privation to instrumentality him. That’s not up to us,” Bondi said.
She called the contented “international matters” and “foreign affairs” and said the U.S. would facilitate Abrego Garcia’s instrumentality if El Salvador wanted to nonstop him backmost by providing an airplane.
As portion of U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis’ bid for reports connected Abrego Garcia’s status, the State Department wrote successful a filing, “He is alive and unafraid successful that facility. He is detained pursuant to the sovereign, home authorization of El Salvador.”
However, successful a caller tribunal filing, the DOJ stated the courts cannot archer the Trump medication however to behaviour overseas policy, arguing that due to the fact that Abrego Garcia is successful Salvadoran custody, the courts bash not person the authorization to compel the U.S. to facilitate his release.
The Trump medication has admitted a clerical mistake caused Abrego Garcia to beryllium sent to El Salvador.
In a complaint, Abrego Garcia’s lawyers person disputed the government’s claims that helium was successful a gang. His lawyers person besides suggested the U.S. nonstop planes and unit to El Salvador to bring him home.
NewsNation's Tom Dempsey and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
