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Alongside Donald Trump, the president of the Salvador says he does not have the “power” to send back an expelled migrant from the United States

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoral immigrant, is at the heart of a judicial imbroglio: American justice requires that it be brought back to the United States, while the administration explains that it no longer has any power on its fate since it is on the Salvadoral soil.

Published the 14/04/2025 22:05 Updated the 14/04/2025 22:05 Reading time: 1min

Salvado and American presidents, Nayib Bukele and Donald Trump, in the White House, in the United States, April 14, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
Salvado and American presidents, Nayib Bukele and Donald Trump, in the White House, in the United States, April 14, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Salvador president Nayib Bukele said on Monday April 14 “power” to send back to the United States a Salvadoral Migrant expelled by the American administration, which admitted to having made an administrative error. “How can I send it back to the United States? I bring it illegally to the United States? Of course, I will not do that. The question is absurd (…) I do not have the power to send it back to the United States”said Nayib Bukele in a White House meeting with US President Donald Trump.

The 43-year-old Salvadoran President, who has engaged a merciless fight against gangs in his country, accepted that more than 250 people expelled from the United States be imprisoned in Salvador, in the gigantic terrorism confinement center (CECOC), a prison he built in the war against the gangs.

Among the people expelled in March, Figures Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant for whom the administration recognized a “Administrative error” Because it was in principle inexpulsable since 2019. Man is at heart From a judicial imbroglio: American justice requires that it be brought back to the United States, while the administration explains that it no longer has any power over its fate since it is on the Salvadoral soil.

The American president also reaffirmed that he was even planning to send American citizens to the Salvador who commit violent crimes, saying “Totally agree”. “If they are criminals, yes”he said. He then asked his Minister of Justice, Pam Bondi, to examine the issue.

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