El Salvador President Says He Won’t Return Man Deported to His Country
“How can I smuggle a terrorist with the United States? I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.”
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said he would not return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to America.
“The question is preposterous,” said Bukele. “How can I smuggle a terrorist with the United States? I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.”
The administration admitted it made a mistake deporting Abrego Garcia to El Salvador.
Abrego Garcia belonged to the El Salvadoran MS-13 gang and entered America illegally. He lost his attempts to stay in America through the immigration and asylum system but received removal protection in 2019.
Abrego Garcia had to be removed…except to El Salvador because he feared for his life.
“We’re not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country,” continued Bukele. “We just turned the murder capital of the world to the safest country of the western hemisphere and he wants to go back into the releasing criminal so we can go back to being the murdered capital of the world. That’s not going to happen.”
President @nayibbukele tells WH reporters he will not return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the U.S.: "I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous…You want us to go back to releasing criminals?…That's not going to happen."
President Trump: "They'd love to have… pic.twitter.com/hDt606x9oH
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) April 14, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller added more:
RUBIO: “I don’t understand what the confusion is! This individual is a citizen of El Salvador, illegally in the U.S., and was returned to his country […] Foreign policy of the US is conducted by the PRESIDENT, not by a court. No court has the right to conduct foreign policy. END OF STORY.”
MILLER: “The Supreme Court said exactly what Marco said: no court has the authority to compel the foreign policy function of the U.S. We won a case 9-0, and people like CNN are portraying it as a loss, as usual, because they want foreign terrorists in the country who kidnap women and children!”
REPORTER: You said if SCOTUS said return someone, you’d abide by that?
TRUMP: “How long do we have to answer this question from you? Why don’t you just say, ‘Isn’t it wonderful we’re keeping criminals out of our country?’ Why can’t you just say that! Why do you go over and over – that’s why nobody watches you. You have NO credibility.”
SMACKDOWN ALERT… Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller and President Trump just totally decimated in realtime fake news reporters for suggesting a court is ordering they bring back an illegal alien from El Salvador.
RUBIO: "I don't understand what the confusion is! This individual is… pic.twitter.com/CjjjUGVpA0
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 14, 2025
On Thursday, the Supreme Court upheld a district judge’s order requiring Trump’s administration to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return.
However, SCOTUS told the District Court it requires clarification:
The rest of the District Court’s order remains in effect but requires clarification on remand. The order properly requires the Government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. The intended scope of the term “effectuate” in the District Court’s order is, however, unclear, and may exceed the District Court’s authority. The District Court should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs. For its part, the Government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps.
On April 4, U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis of the District Court for the District of Maryland told the Trump administration to “facilitate and effectuate” Abrego Garcia’s return after his wife, a U.S. citizen, filed a lawsuit.
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“The administration admitted it made a mistake deporting Abrego Garcia to El Salvador.”
That is not the position of the Trump administration. That is what the liberal DOJ lawyer told the judge. That lawyer was promptly fired.
That is what Trump advisor Stephen Miller said on Fox news this morning.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1911774232435962344
Thanks.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele appears in the Oval Office without a suit and tie. A-OK!. Musk appears in the Oval Office without a suit and tie. A-OK!. Zelensky appears in the Oval Office without a suit and tie. YOU DO NOT RESPECT THE OFFICE OF THE U.S. PRESIDENT! YOU DIDN’T SAY THANK YOU!
Neither Musk nor Bukele aggressively argued with Trump and Vance during their visits, dufus.
Zelensky did.
So one of these is not like the others.
Idiot.
Not very fashion savvy, are you JR…????
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele…Sport coat, dress pants.
Elon Musk… Sport coat, dress pants.
Mr Zelensky….? Sweat shirt, cargo pants.
Awwww poor JR. Did your mom tell you again that you have to wear pants even if you stay in the basement?
What on earth does your post have to do with the subject that the adults are talking about?
* I know, I said to just ignore him but damn…
The media continues to lie about this.
That is the position of the Trump administration, or else it’s got some ‘splaining to do to the Supreme Court.
If Miller claims that it was only some Democrat saboteur who said it was an error, then he is lying, because despite his bluster this is what a unanimous Supreme Court said:
If that’s not true then the administration has lied to the Supreme Court, which can’t and won’t go well for it.
The bottom line is that on the question of whether the deportation was legal the Supreme Court voted 9-0 that it was illegal. Miller pretends the opposite, making him a liar.
Court orders US to invade El Salvador and kidnap a El Salvador and bring him to the US.
lol
No court ordered any such thing. The District Court merely ordered that the US should “facilitate and effectuate” his return, and the Supreme Court agreed with “facilitate” but wasn’t sure what the District Court meant by “effectuate”.
Well, there you go. The Trump administration made an attempt to get Garcia released, the President of El Salvador refused, and that’s the end of the issue, right? Right?!??
DOJ said “facilitate his return” meant that the US would provide a plane if El Salvador chooses releases him.
No. I think we decided US will supply either water wings or a leak dinghy.
How did he get here the first time? So give him a map, a canteen and an extra pair of socks.
Jeff Bezos said he would be willing send a space ship to get him, but so far Blue Origin doesn’t go anywhere, it just goes up and down.
That’s only new Shephard. I think New Glenn is supposed to go sideways.
That would be effectuating. Facilitating is removal of barriers to return by the US.
Correct. They facilitated, and made an effort to effectuate effort. The court cannot dictate the how and specifics of the latter. The SC decision is fully satisfied. Even if he came back, the court requires his deportation under the deportation order, so where does he get sent? El Salvador is the perfect place for him.
As I understand it (and I may be wrong, it’s been known to happen), it was an immigration “court” that placed the restriction on his deportation to El Salvador. According to ICE, an “immigration court” “is an administrative court within the Department of Justice (DOJ). The court is also part of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR).” This means any “court order” that may have been violated by sending Garcia to El Salvador can be overridden by the ultimate chief of the court, the POTUS.
If Garcia were to be returned, he’d likely be scheduled for a hearing on his request to to not be shipped out to El Salvador, and the “court” could remove the hold. Garcia could then be sent back to El Salvador.
I’m also wondering if Trump could just backdate an order rescinding the immigration court’s order. Almost certainly, upon Garcia’s return, he could lift the restriction and send Garcia back. The “court” is an administrative office within ICE, a part of the Executive Branch. That makes the POTUS the final decision-maker. It’s not a court of law and the “order” isn’t a legal matter, it’s an administrative matter.
This also makes me wonder: If the order is from an immigration court, then one office of ICE violated an order from another section or division of ICE, the Immigration Court. Do our courts of law have any authority to adjudicate administrative matters between two divisions or sections of the same office or agency?
Until that scary district court judge orders the President of El Salvador to send him back or else
I imagine all of the liberal ngo’s and activists are scheming and preparing to sue El Salvador
The district court judge has never claimed to have any authority over the El Salvador government.
True. However she claims the authority to force Trump to use his powers against the El Salvadorian government.
If you’ll permit the analogy:
The Judge doesn’t claim to have the power to stop the tide from coming in, but she claims the authority to order King Canute to order the the tides about.
He’s their citizen
Not ours
We literally would be kidnapping THEIR citizen
End of story
Wouldn’t be the first time we kidnapped someone. Probably not the first time we broke someone out of prison either.
Well, he’s locked up. Perhaps we should send a locksmith to El Salvador.
Only if it is a DEI locksmith.
The wife can join her gang banger husband in his native country if she wants.
We’re done with him here.
Adios
But Garcia wasn’t improperly sent to El Salvador. As has been said over and over, Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador, he was in the United States illegally, he was removed from the United States and repatriated to El Salvador. All legal under current immigration law. That he landed in prison in El Salvador isn’t any concern of the Trump administration.
No, it was not legal. The Supreme Court explicitly said it was illegal. The question is only what can be done about it now.
The Trump administration asked that Garcia be released, the El Salvadoran government refused, so what else is there to do. I suppose they could send a sternly worded letter to Pres. Bukele asking once again for his return. But beyond that not sure what can be done.
Good, done and done.
It’s pretty much over. The president of El Salvador is the one who has the last word and it was no.
A strongly worded letter sounds perfect. “Dear President Bukele. We would like to request that prisoner Garcia be sent to another South American country to serve his sentence there. Thank you very much, Trump.”
There we go. That should do it.
“Dear President Bukele. Please check double check and make sure prisoner Garcia is MS-13. Thank you very much, Trump.”
I can’t wait to see the Court’s response to El Salvador’s refusal to deport their own citizen to a foreign country.
To what extent can the court force the U.S. to do things that would expedite the return? Require an offer of money? How much? Force the U.S. to take diplomatic action against El Salvador? Make the U.S. threaten military action?
More relevant I guess is what punishment can the court inflict on the U.S. government for the “error” of deporting Garcia to El Salvador? Could an official be jailed? I don’t think so. A monetary fine would be meaningless: from whom would the money be taken and to whom would it be paid.
On a tangent, all this popcorn I’m eating watching all this is making me fat!
They have no power to dictate how foreign policy is performed, which is why the SC directed clarification of the effectuate part of the lower court judgement.
In the administrations response to the judge they noted that she did not explain as SCOTUS ordered what her order meant and explicitly warned her about intruding on foreign policy. She ignored all that. Anything after this point would be grounds for impeachment.
Yes… exactly! …so where does the court go? Drop the whole thing? How do they define effectuate? Inquiring minds what to know!
you all realize how screwed we are if Dems ever rise to power again.
You realize their kind must never regain power again to quote David Plouffe
Bukele: “An’ oh, judge… I contempt you, ‘ay? Pendejo!”
Mission Impossible XXIX. Tom Cruise will get right on it. The secretary will definitely disavow his actions whether he is successful or not
This episode seems pretty well settled. Unfortunately SCOTUS ducked the opportunity to end future unconstitutional idiocy from inferior Judges by clearly and unequivocally explaining that SCOTUS itself can’t dictate to the Executive what or how to conduct matters of.Foreign Policy or Nat Security much less some random District Judge. Then append to their opinion a direction to the Circuit re censure and additional CE requirements on Con Law basics.
What I do not understand is how the Court sitting in equity ignored a fundamental maxim. Equity regards as done that which should have been done. Yes, the Government failed to rescind the prior order of protection. But this is meaningless if that order would have been rescinded if the request were made. That MS-13 was designated a terrorist organization would have been sufficient to rescind the prior order. A court sitting in equity must be “fair” and that means not acting on a technical mistake if it really would not make a difference. The focus on the order of protection to my mind I was misplaced.
It’s time to make changes at SCOTUS and to start defunding the Washington DC District Court system.
“Defendants understand “facilitate” to mean what that term has long meant in the immigration context, namely actions allowing an alien to enter the United States. Taking “all available steps to facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia is thus best read as taking all available steps to remove any domestic obstacles that would otherwise impede the alien’s ability to return here. Indeed, no other reading of “facilitate” is tenable—or constitutional—here,” Trump’s DOJ wrote.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.65.0.pdf
Hillary Clinton gave Russia a “Reset” Button.
Trump should give El Salvador a “Facilitate” button.
He should give Bukele a light switch that turns Xinis’s bedroom lights on and off.
SCOTUS to District Court: “The rest of the District Court’s order remains in effect but requires clarification on remand. The order properly requires the Government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.”
Properly handling of his case would put Garcia in a max-security prison in El Salvador … where Bukele intends to keep him. Next case.
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