El Salvador president refuses to return wrongly deported man with US protected status
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Trump officials claim they’re not legally bound to bring Kilmar Ábrego García back despite supreme court ruling

The president of El Salvador said in a meeting with Donald Trump in the White House on Monday that he would not order the return of a Maryland man who was deported in error to a Salvadoran mega-prison.

“The question is preposterous,” Nayib Bukele said in the Oval Office on Monday, where he was welcomed by Trump and spoke with the president and members of his cabinet. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I’m not going to do it.”

He added: “I don’t have the power to return him to the United States,” and said he would not release the man, Kilmar Abrego García, into El Salvador either. “I’m not very fond of releasing terrorists into the country.”

The comments came a day after the Trump administration claimed it is not legally obligated to secure the return of the Abrego García, despite the US supreme court ruling that the administration should “facilitate” bringing him back.

Well, fuck. This is such petty bullshit when these two guys could easily get him home to his wife. Once again, the cruelty is the whole point. Not law, not safety, just Snidely Whiplash on steroids.

  • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    It’s of my opinion that everyone deported to El Salvador prison are wrongly deported. But hey, the more fucked America becomes, the more US citizens begin to understand that law isn’t as important as the state leaders would have you think.
    Another of my opinions is this: The laws of morality, of human ethics, are undeniable, and the most important laws to uphold. If a state law breaches a law of morality, it’s a law I do not recognise.