"I'm Not Going To Do It": El Salvador Refuses To Return Alleged MS-13 "Terrorist" To US
By Tyler Durden
Update (1235ET): El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele will not return an El Salvadorian citizen mistakenly deported from the United States, suggesting that to return the man would be to smuggle a terrorist into the United States.
"Well, I'm supposed to have suggested that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States, right?" Bukele said when pressed on returning the man to the US. "Return him to the United States. I smuggle him into the United States. I'm not going to do it."
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an El Salvadoran national, was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration, after which the US Supreme Court ruled that the administration must facilitate his return.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller also chimed in, saying: "So it's very arrogant, even for American media to suggest that we would even tell El Salvador how to handle their own citizens. As a starting point, as two immigration courts found that he was a member of MS-13," adding "When President Trump declared MS-13 to be a foreign terrorist organization, that meant that he was no longer eligible under federal law... for any form of immigration relief in the United States."
"So he had a deportation order that was valid, which meant that, under our law, he's not even allowed to be present in the United States and had to be returned because of the foreign terrorist designation," Miller added. "This issue was then by a district court judge completely inverted, and a district court judge tried to tell the administration that they had to kidnap a citizen of El Salvador and flying back here. That issue was raised to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court said the district court order was unlawful and its main components were reversed."
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President Donald Trump is opening the doors of the White House to Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, on April 14 to talk about the use of Bukele’s Terrorism Confinement Center to house illegal immigrants deported from the United States.
“Our nations are working closely together to eradicate terrorist organizations, and build a future of prosperity,” Trump wrote April 12 on his Truth Social platform.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters during a press briefing April 11 that the Central American nation’s leader is visiting “to talk about the cooperation that is at an all-time high, and we very much appreciate President Bukele and El Salvador’s cooperation and the repatriation of El Salvadorian gang members who the previous administration allowed to infiltrate our country.”
Officials point to an agreement between the two nations to incarcerate Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gang members in El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center as a positive move based on mutually beneficial collaboration.
The high-profile meeting comes on the heels of a unanimous April 10 Supreme Court decision regarding a Maryland court filing that orders the federal government to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Salvadoran illegal immigrant and alleged gang member, who was deported to El Salvador despite a previous court ruling preventing his deportation to that country after determining it would impact his safety.
Attorneys for the federal government blamed an “administrative error” for Abrego Garcia’s deportation, according to the court ruling.
Leavitt told reporters that interpreting the language of the decision is important to understand the role the government is expected to play in assisting Abrego Garcia.
“The Supreme Court made their ruling last night very clear that it’s the administration’s responsibility to facilitate the return, not to effectuate the return,” Leavitt said.
She deferred inquiry to the Department of Justice’s newly filed brief challenging the matter in a lower court.
The deportee’s future remains unclear, with Trump suggesting El Salvador will decide his fate.
“President Bukele has graciously accepted into his nation’s custody some of the most violent alien enemies of the world and, in particular, the United States,” Trump wrote.
“These barbarians are now in the sole custody of El Salvador, a proud and sovereign nation, and their future is up to President [Bukele] and his government. They will never threaten or menace our citizens again!”
Abrego Garcia’s attorney said the government’s tactic of quickly deporting suspected illegal immigrants puts the judicial system’s reputation for fairness in question.
“The government can deport whomever they want, wherever they want, and call it a mistake later,” Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, the man’s attorney, told reporters after the Supreme Court found in his client’s favor.
Abrego Garcia was arrested on March 12 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Baltimore.
His wife, U.S. citizen Jennifer Vasquez Sura, later identified him in a photo of shackled deportees seen entering the terrorism center and subsequently challenged the deportation in federal court.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on April 4 ordered the federal government to return Abrego Garcia, calling the deportation “wholly lawless” in her ruling.
Abrego Garcia remains in Salvadoran custody, where he has resided for just over a month.
Prior court filings say Abrego Garcia fled gang threats in his home country as a teenager. He has no criminal record in the United States and denies the federal immigration authorities’ allegations that he is affiliated with the notorious MS-13 transnational gang.
Here's Stephen Miller to clarify a few things...
- https://x.com/i/status/1911774232435962344
BOOM! Top Trump advisor Stephen Miller just went BERSERK for 3 minutes straight on Fox over the media narrative that Trump must bring home Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador.
Miller perfectly debunked this ENTIRE claim that Garcia's deportation was an "error." This entire thing is a MASTERCLASS.
"We won the Supreme Court case. Clearly, 9-0, a district court judge said, unconscionably, that the president and his administration have to go into El Salvador and extradite one of their citizens, an El Salvadorian citizen - that would be kidnapping."
"That we have to kidnap an El Salvadorian citizen against the will of his government and fly him back to America, which would be an unimaginable act and an invasion of El Salvador's sovereignty. So he appealed to the Supreme Court and it said - clearly, no district court can compel the president to exercise his Article II foreign powers."
"DOJ called me after that Supreme Court ruling and they said, this is amazing. We won this case nine zero. We are an excellent standing here. So this has been portrayed wrong for 72 hours in the media."
"They said the most a court could ever compel you to do would be to facilitate return, which would basically mean if El Salvador voluntarily sends him back we wouldn't block him at the airport. We would put him back into ICE detention and then he would be deported either back to El Salvador or somewhere else."
"In 2019, he was ordered deported. He is a final removal order from the United States. These are things that no one disputes. Where is he from? El Salvador. Where is he a resident and citizen of? El Salvador. Is he here illegally? Yes. Does he have a deportation order? Yes."
"A DOJ lawyer who has since been relieved of duty, a saboteur, a Democrat, put into a filing incorrectly that this was a mistaken and removal. It was NOT! This was the right person sent to the right place."
"Now some have said, well, but he had a thing called a 'withholding order.' A withholding order means you've been ordered deported, but an immigration judge is saying you cannot go back to a particular country. Here's the thing: if you are a member of a foreign terrorist organization, you cannot have a withholding order."
"Since he's in MS-13, there is no withholding order. Furthermore, that gang he is accused of being persecuted by doesn't exist anymore in El Salvador! The 18th Street gang is GONE."
"So you have an illegal alien from El Salvador. Bill, where are we supposed to send the illegal alien from El Salvador? To what country?"
HOST: Are you convinced he is still a member of MS-13? That was your original charge.
MILLER: "Yes. Do you stand by But here's the thing, Bill. Yes, but not only am I convinced of it, not only is El Salvador convinced of it. Bill, he's an illegal alien from El Salvador with a deportation order! So his only options in life, Bill, his only options in life are to be deported to El Salvador or to be deported to some other country. That's IT." Tyler Durden
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