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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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[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

I am not surprised this is how things are unfolding. That's the whole point of having a foreign country host your concentration camps: Put the Liability on them and wash your hands of the matter.