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El Salvador president refuses to order return of wrongly deported US man (www.theguardian.com)
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The president of El Salvador said in a meeting with Donald Trump in the White House on Monday that he would not order the return of a Maryland man who was deported in error to a Salvadorian mega-prison.

“The question is preposterous,” Nayib Bukele said in the Oval Office on Monday, where he was welcomed by Trump and spoke with the president and members of his cabinet. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I’m not going to do it.”

He added: “I don’t have the power to return him to the United States,” and said he would not release the man, Kilmar Abrego García, into El Salvador either. “I’m not very fond of releasing terrorists into the country.”

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Here's all you need to know: we're paying El Salvador to keep these prisoners. We have the power here, we're just feigning helplessness.

[–] albert180@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

Everybody with more than one brain cell knows this. I guess it's a Show for the Supreme Court to say that "We would like and tried, but it's not possible"

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

I don't think they even know if he's dead or alive. I'm pretty sure all the cash is up front too.

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is the same trick they're playing with Zelensky/Ukraine. The US CONTROLS Ukraine COMPLETELY. We are the ones that built up their CIA (SBU). We couped them in 2014. We are the ones that planned and executed terrorist attacks on Russia. We are the ones that feed them targeting information. Zelensky is a puppet. The guy was supposed to be a peace candidate. The idea that Trump abandoned Zelensky, who wants to fight the war sooooooooooooooo badly is such a fucking joke.