Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, stated that he has no intention of sending Kilmar Armando Abrego García back to the United States, following his deportation back to his native country.
Despite a previous Supreme Court decision stating that the Trump administration should take “steps to facilitate” the possible return of the purported MS-13 member living in Maryland, who was deported to the Central American country, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele asserted on Monday that he is powerless to send the man back to the United States.
Additionally, Salvadoran officials, including the president, are not obligated to adhere to rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court.
El Salvador is a sovereign nation with its own laws and judicial system.
U.S. Supreme Court rulings apply only within the jurisdiction of the United States. While there may be extradition treaties or international agreements between the U.S. and El Salvador, any cooperation based on those is voluntary and subject to Salvadoran law, not U.S. court mandates. The U.S. may request that El Salvador take certain actions, like extradition or deportation, but compliance is up to Salvadoran authorities — including the president and their legal system.
Abrego Garcia’s lawyer, Benjamin Osorio, told ABC News that he had “very serious concerns” about Bukele’s statement. According to Osorio, President Trump and Bukele are “both incentivized” to avoid bringing Abrego Garcia back.
“Bukele’s doing this because that’s obviously what Trump wants, right?,” Osorio said. “Because if they bring [Abrego Garcia] back, it’s going to be a media frenzy, and this guy’s gonna be all over the news, and then we’ll know about his experience.”
The Salvadoran president elaborated further on his perspective regarding the issue.
“I hope you are not suggesting that I smuggle terrorists into the United States,” Bukele told reporters while sitting alongside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. “Of course, I’m not going to do it.
“The question is preposterous,” he added. “I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.”
Kilmar Abrego García and over 260 other suspected gang members were sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a maximum security prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, last month in accordance with the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act.
Meanwhile, Abrego García’s family denies the Trump administration’s arguments in court filings that he is “confirmed to be a ranking member of the MS-13 gang by a proven and reliable source.”
So Bukkake is projecting his own confirmed history with MS-13. So predictable, these types.
You can’t deny that he has cleaned up El Salvador.
He’s a hero for that.
Its because they already injured or killed him and don’t want to be caught.
I honestly think it’s just because they like to imprison them indefinitely. Cops were killed by MS-13 during their war on crime.
Putting every one of these goons behind bars for as long as possible is a personal goal of Bukele.
If you watch his interview with Tucker, he absolutely believes the gangs were not just criminal, but a demonic, malevolent force.
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So, let’s try to find some information about this:
In March 2019, Prince George’s County, Maryland, police arrested Abrego Garcia and three other men in a Home Depot parking lot, where they were seeking work as day laborers.[2][19] One of the men claimed Abrego Garcia was a “gang member,” but The Atlantic reported that, according to court filings, the man offered no proof and police said they did not believe him.[19] Abrego Garcia was never charged with a crime in connection to his arrest.[20]
Police handed custody of Abrego Garcia over to ICE for deportation proceedings. In those proceedings, the government claimed that he was a member of the MS-13 criminal gang because “he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie” and a confidential informant claimed that he was active with an MS-13 group based in New York,[2] where he has never lived.[16] ICE relied on information from a form that was filled out by a local police officer who was suspended not long after for “giving confidential information about a case to a sex worker”, and thus was unavailable when Abrego Garcia’s lawyer sought more information.[21] Roger Parloff of Lawfare notes that since neither the officer nor the informant were cross-examined, the accusation went through two layers of hearsay to reach the immigration court. An immigration judge determined that the informant’s claim[22] was sufficient evidence for the purpose of denying Abrego Garcia’s bond request; another judge upheld that ruling on appeal, saying the claim was not clearly wrong.[18] However, no court has ever made a “full adjudication” of this issue.[18] David Bier, associate director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, notes that the standards of evidence are lower in an immigration bond hearing than in a trial; in a bond hearing, the government’s statement is assumed true and the burden of proof is on the defendant.[23] Abrego Garcia has consistently denied any connection to MS-13.[24]
Here is what the DHS is saying:
“This was just one of those examples of an individual that is a MS-13 gang member, multiple charges and encounters with the individuals here, trafficking in his background, was found with other MS-13 gang members—very dangerous person, and what the liberal left and fake news are doing to turn him into a media darling is sickening,” said Secretary Noem.
Now, what is the evidence that he has multiple charges and encounters, and that he was found with MS-13 gangsters…?
I did not find it, but it does not mean that it is not necessarily true. His lawyers are shopping for an audience with the meida, I think, and they will selectivley present information, just as how the government is guilty of such.
Something else I found interesting:
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller: “When President Trump declared MS-13 to be a foreign terrorist organization, that meant that (Abrego Garcia) was no longer eligible, under federal law … for any form of immigration relief in the United States.”
It’s inaccurate that the U.S. government’s February designation of MS-13 as a foreign terrorist organization automatically revoked Abrego Garcia’s protection from removal, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, said.
People who are proven members of a terrorist organization are ineligible for protection from removal. But in Abrego Garcia’s case, to revoke his protections, the U.S. government “would have been required under law to reopen his immigration court proceedings and prove to the judge that he was a member of MS-13 and therefore no longer eligible for withholding.”
This declaration of those guys being terrorists is truly impactful.
He’s fine. That’s been confirmed.
They’ll never bring him back to America nor should they. The real issue is each side is saying they can’t. Someone can ship his ass to another country and then the court order would be fulfilled.
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It’s in the court order. SCOTUS said they just have to remove him from El Salvador. He legally isn’t entitled to be in America. The issue was he was deported to the one place the judge said he could go which is stupid since that’s his home country
