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Main lawyer Pam Bonda doubled on Trump administration If “up to El Salvador” whether Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant in Maryland, which was wrongly deported last month, can return to the USA
In an interview with journalists at the briefing for journalists on Wednesday, Bondi reiterated her earlier claim that he was on El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele whether his country decides to return Abrego Garcia to the United States, although officials admitted that his deportation was an administrative mistake.
“He does not return to our country,” Bondi told Fox News on Wednesday, in response to a question of his legal status during briefing.
Abrego Garcia is a Salvador citizen who lived in Maryland before deported in March. It is now believed to be kept in the widespread prison of the maximum security of his home country. Both the Federal Court and the Supreme Court ordered Trump’s administration to “facilitate” release and return to the US for the appropriate deportation procedure.
Main lawyer Pam Bondi and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Center right, sit nearby while President Donald Trump meets with President El Salvadori Nayib Bukela, left, in the oval office of the White House. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Bondi made it clear on Wednesday that they still consider the issue directly in Bukele.
“Bukela President said he didn’t send him back. That’s the end of the story,” she said. “If he wanted to send him back, we would bring him back the plane. There was no situation, ever, where he would stay in this country. No.”
Her remarks come after the Supreme Court supported the lower court’s order last week, which demanded the Government to “facilitate” the release of Abrega Garcia from custody in El Salvador and “ensures that his case is treated, because it would not have been unnoticed by El Salvador.”
On Tuesday, the federal judge in Maryland ordered Trump’s lawyers and prosecutors to conduct “Intensive”, a rapidly two -week discovery The process in efforts to facilitate the return of Abrega Garcia – including the ordering of top DHS DHS officials, under the oath, in an effort to ensure its return, because the court weighs whether Trump’s administration has acted in good faith.
“Cancel breaks, cancel other appointments,” US District Judge Paul Xinis said on Tuesday, clearing the way for what she said she would be an extremely fast time frame.
“There will be no tolerance to play or majesty,” she said about the procedure.
Bondi also emphasized that Abrego Garcia is not a citizen of the United States that “he lived illegally in our country from El Salvador.”
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The prison officer preserves the cell at the Criminal Center for maximum security for mandatory housing of terrorism on April 4, 2025 in Tecoluci, San Vicente, El Salvador. (Alex Peña/Getty Images)
That’s not disputed. The US Court approved Abrego Garcia temporary protected status in 2019, revealing that he had faced a “clear likelihood of future persecution” if they returned and that “the El Salvadorane authorities were and would not be able to protect him.”
Neither the judgment of the Supreme Court nor the command of the lower court demands that Abrego Garcia remain in the United States, the courts emphasized that some of the deportation to the deportation must be approved by a certain protection against the proceedings in accordance with the US Constitution, including the protection against HABE, which allow them to challenge them.
It was not the first time this week Trump officials suggested that El Salvador should have the last word of Abrega Garcia.
They also made this claim on Monday, when the president Donald Trump In the White House he hosted Bukela on a two -sided summers.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador prison last month. (Fox News)
Asked by journalists about Abrego Garcia, Bondi and other cabinet officials said the matter was about Bukele’s administration.
“It’s on El Salvador if they want to bring him back. It’s not up to us,” Bondi said then. “The Supreme Court ruled that if El Salvador wanted to bring him back,” she continued. “These are international questions, external jobs.”
Bondi added that “if they want to bring it back, we would make it easier – which means to provide the plane.”
El Salvador received hundreds of migrants from the United States, including more than 200 Venezuela nationals, suddenly removed in March under the alienal enemies from 1798, and alleged members of the Salvador Gang MS-13, in accordance with a $ 6 million contract, concluded with the US earlier this year.
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The deputy head of the White House Staff Stephen Miller doubled Bondi’s claim, noting that Abrego Garcia is a Salvador citizen.
“It is very arrogant, even for US media, to suggest to even say El Salvador how to deal with their own citizens as a starting point,” Miller told reporters, claiming that “two courts” considered Abrego Garcia a member of the MS-13 gang.
