During an Oval Office meeting with President Trump on Monday, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said he would not return to a Maryland man who was wrongly expelled from the United States and sent to the infamous El Salvador prison.
Mr. Buckler positioned himself as a key ally of Mr. Trump, partly by opening his country’s prisons to the deported, sitting next to the president and a group of cabinet officials who put up a combative tone of the case that has arrived at the Supreme Court.
“Of course, I won’t do that,” Mr. Berkle said Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was the 29-year-old father who was deported last month when reporters asked him if he would help return to the man. The Trump administration acknowledged that his deportation was the result of an “administrative error.”
The message of the meeting was clear: Even though the Supreme Court ruled that he should return to the United States, neither Mr. Trump nor Mr. Buckley intended to return to Mr. Abreg Garcia. The case symbolizes Mr. Trump’s contempt for the court and his willingness to expel people without due process.
Mr. Trump is also addicted to the possibility of sending convicted U.S. citizens to El Salvador prisons, although he said Attorney General Pam Bondi is still studying the legitimacy of the proposal.
“If this is a local criminal, I’m fine, no,” Mr. Trump said. “I’m talking about violent people. I’m talking about really bad people.”
Before the entire journalist was allowed into the Oval Office for a meeting, the TV cameras captured Mr. Trump told Mr. Buckler to build more prisons.
Mr. Trump invited some of his senior officials to Monday’s meeting, most of which were held in front of news cameras. Ms. Bundy and Stephen Miller, architects of Mr. Trump’s immigration agenda, accused Mr. Abrego Garcia of being a member of the MS-13 gang.
Mr. Abrego Garcia has never been charged or convicted. Abrego Garcia’s lawyer said he fled El Salvador’s threats and violence in 2011 and came to the United States to join his brother, a U.S. citizen, in Maryland. He later married an American citizen. In 2019, an immigration judge banned the U.S. from deporting him to El Salvador, saying he could face violence or torture there.
Mr. Abrego Garcia’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“If they want to return him, it depends on El Salvador.” “It’s not up to us,” Ms. Miller further argued that a federal judge went out of his way to direct the government to provide a road map for Mr. Abreg Garcia’s return. “No one must force the Secretary of State and the President to retrieve the citizens of El Salvador from El Salvador, who is again a member of MS-13,” he said.
Mr. Bucker followed suit, saying that those returning to Mr. Abreg Garcia were similar to smuggling “terrorists into the United States.” Mr. Trump was surrounded by cabinet members as the president talked, who smiled in support of the president’s tips.
On Monday night, more than an hour after the judge ordered the order deadline, the Justice Department filed a daily update outlining the steps taken to return Mr. Abreg Garcia to the United States. It responds to many tenacious remarks made by government officials in the Oval Office.
New York’s representative Hakeem Jeffries, a Supreme House Democrat, called on the court to declare his contempt for Trump administration officials.
“The Supreme Court and/or the Federal District Court actually need to execute its orders,” Mr Jeffries said on MSNBC. He hinted that despises could be targeted at the Secretary of the Department of State and Homeland Security and their subordinates.
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of Abrego Garcia, said the U.S. and El Salvador governments are playing a “political game” with their husband’s life.
“My heart is heavy, but I insist on the strength of hope and the people around me,” she said.
“The government can eliminate people without due process and take no responsibility for what happens next” is equivalent to a “rule of law crisis,” said Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown University.
“If the government can do this to Abrego Garcia, they can do it to anyone,” Vladeck said.
At Mr. Buckler, Mr. Trump is working to force dozens of immigrants to find partners in the El Salvador prison and leave them there, barely considering checks and balances.
The Supreme Court ordered the government last week to “promote” Mr. Abreg Garcia’s return, but it never defined the specific steps taken by U.S. officials. Ms. Bundy argued on Monday that the court’s ruling meant that the United States needed to help with Mr. Abreg Garcia’s return (such as providing the plane), only when Mr. Buckler decided to send him back to the United States.
“The court opened the government, which had made a millimeter-range opening and drove a Mike truck,” Vladeck said.
Michael G., a senior bureau official at the State Council’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.
The Justice Department also argued in Sunday’s legal documents that the court lacked the ability to decide what the White House should do to return to Mr. Abreg Garcia because only the president has the right to deal with U.S. foreign policy.
The Trump administration invoked a hundred years of wartime mandate to deport immigrants to El Salvador, saying they were members of violent gangs such as MS-13, which originated in the United States and operated in South America, Venezuelan crime group Tren de Aragua.
The Law is the Alien Enemy Act of 1798, allowing people from countries that were fighting with the United States to be briefly deported.
Although some deported people have committed criminal convictions, court documents show that the government relies on labeling some of these gang members to evidence is often nothing more than tattoos or clothing related to the criminal organization.
Although the administration refused to help Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen said Monday that he wanted to discuss El Salvador immigration with Bukele. He added that if Abrego Garcia does not return, he will head to El Salvador this week.
The Trump administration doubled its imprisonment agreement with Mr. Buckley on Sunday, when it announced it had sent 10 members of allegedly two gangs to El Salvador over the weekend.
Mr. Buckler found a seat on the global stage by opening the door to Mr. Trump.
The Biden administration regards Mr. Buckler as the world’s “coolest dictator”, who is a pariah. The Ministry of Justice under the previous administration even accused Mr. Buckler and the El Salvador government of secretly staying away from certain gang leaders. Mr. Trump seems to admire Mr. Buckley’s equivalent in Latin America and defends his domestic agenda without hesitation.
Sometimes, Mr. Buckler and Mr. Trump have shown from discussing immigration that they criticize politicians who allow trans athletes to participate in women’s sports to be consistent.
Mr. Buckler also joked about how his staff did not include “Dei Hire”.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Bucker paired their tough roles with highly sensational public relations on social media.
Mr. Buckler imposed a state of emergency following a gang violence in El Salvador, the state has not been lifted and directed police and military to conduct mass arrests. Many of the 85,000 El Salvadors arrested disappeared without trial and entered the prison system, and no family knew whether they were still alive.
“The United States should hold Buckley’s administration responsible for these serious violations, but the Trump administration is working to and copy Buckley’s authoritarian script – without evidence that their people, denying any due process, and disappearing them indefinitely, and indefinitely under the supervision of the abused El Salvadors, among the abused El Salvadors.
Still, Mr. Buckler’s popularity has soared, as his administration reported a decline in violent crime, he was re-elected as a landslide last year. The Trump administration changed El Salvador’s travel advisory last week, saying that visiting is safer than countries like France or the UK.
The Trump administration cited the progress El Salvador has promoted gang violence over the past three years, although the Justice Department had previously accused Mr. Buckley of courting gang members in exchange for lowering the number of homicides.
Mr. Buckler described the decision on social media as akin to getting “Venus.”
Alan Feuer and Chris Cameron Contribution report.
