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President Donald Trump, left, gestures as he greets El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele as Bukele arrives at the White House, Monday, April 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

VIDEO: Both the US and El Salvador refuse to return wrongly deported man to the US

By The Associated Press

The Latest: Both the US and El Salvador refuse to return wrongly deported man to the US

President Donald Trump ’s top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they had no basis for the small Central American nation to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month.

Trump administration officials emphasized Abrego Garcia, who was sent to a notorious gang prison in El Salvador, was a citizen of that country and the U.S. has no say in his future. And Bukele, who has been a vital partner for the Trump administration in its deportation efforts, said he does not “have the power to return him to the United States.”

The Supreme Court has called for the Trump administration to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return.

El Salvador’s president says it’s ‘preposterous’ that he’d return the Maryland man deported in error

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