El Salvador's Bukele, meeting with Trump, says he won't return migrant wrongfully deported

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El Salvador's Bukele, meeting with Trump, says he won't return migrant wrongfully deported

El Salvador's Bukele, meeting with Trump, says he won't return migrant wrongfully deported

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El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, sitting next to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, said on Monday he will not return Kilmar Abrego García, a migrant from Maryland who was wrongfully deported. "I don't have the power to return him to the United States," Bukele said when a reporter asked. "How could I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?" he added, repeating the Trump administration's claim that Abrego García is a "terrorist" gang member of MS-13 -- which it has not claimed in the court battle over his fate. Bukele, the self-described "world's coolest dictator" who has become a key partner in Trump's controversial deportations, called it a "preposterous question," saying "of course, I'm not going to do...

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