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.”

  • Archangel
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    012 days ago

    Why would they need to “smuggle” him back into the country? He’s an innocent man, wrongfully incarcerated in a foreign prison. What the fuck is wrong with these assholes?

    • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]
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      011 days ago

      No, see, he’s just playing word games. He has a hostage now. You understand the man who runs superjail for profit is not a good man right?