Incarceration of Abrego Garcia sparks Argument between Trump & Nayib Bukele

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, is not interested in releasing a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to his nation and incarcerated. The Trump administration feels otherwise.  Kilmar Abrego Garcia was as member of the Salvadorn hit group named MS-13 in New York.

Bukele, who met with Trump in the Oval Office on Monday, was asked by a reporter if he’d consider releasing Garcia to which Bukele struck a sarcastic reply stating “Are you suggesting I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? How can I return him to the United States, like I smuggle him into the United States? Of course, I'm not going to do it”.

“We just turned the murder capital of the world to the safest country the western hemisphere. And you want us to go back into the releasing criminals, so we can go back to the murder capital of the world, and that's that's not going to happen,” he said.

Despite the court order preventing his deportation, the Trump administration officials state that he is eligible for removal from the country. But in court filings, Justice Department attorneys have stressed that they interpret the Supreme Court’s order to say the judge can’t direct Trump — or anyone in his administration — to ask for Abrego Garcia’s return because courts “have no authority to direct the executive branch to conduct foreign relations in a particular way, or engage with a foreign sovereign in a given manner.”

In the Oval Office alongside Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated “I don't understand what the confusion is. This individual is a citizen of El Salvador. He was illegally in the United States and was returned to his country. That's where you deport people back to their country of origin”.