El Salvador’s president Bukele says he won’t return Maryland man
In a meeting at the White House, Nayib Bukele told President Trump he would not return the mistakenly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
GREENBELT, MD – A federal judge declined Tuesday to hold the Trump administration in contempt for failing to return a Maryland father wrongly deported to El Salvador but admonished government attorneys for failing to provide evidence of what they were doing to bring him home.
The warning from U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis follows a ruling last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, which said the administration must begin the process of releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who was expelled from the U.S. in March. Abrego Garcia was sent to a violent prison in El Salvador despite a previous court order protecting him from deportation to that country.
U.S. officials contend Abrego Garcia is a member of the gang MS-13 and say they have no authority to free him because he is imprisoned in a foreign county. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said during a visit to the White House on Monday that he would not release Abrego Garcia and called the suggestion “preposterous.”