Salvadoran president says he won't return wrongly deported man to U.S.

[happy feet]

Source: Washington Post

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said Monday that he did not plan to return to Kilmar Abrego García to the United States. “How can I return him to the United States?” Bukele asked Monday during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. “I smuggle him into the United States? Of course I’m not going to do it.” The comments come a day after the Justice Department told a federal judge that it isn’t required to bring home a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

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[randr]

1. Kiddnapping charges need to be brought

[maxsolomon]

2. Bad Faith arguments are common to all Autocrats.

He can do whatever he wants. At least let Garcia out of jail; he didn't commit any crimes.

[intrepidity]

3. So all of those sent there got a life sentence, for what?

This is beyond outrageous.

[moonshinegnomie]

4. arrest all the officials involved for kidnapping

i dont give a damn about legal niceties any more. haul them into court in cuffs and lock them up in the deepest hellhole prison maryland can find.

and if the officials resist arrest them the cops should do what they norally do when dealing with threats....

[Easterncedar]

9. Right

Just following orders can’t be a viable defense to crime.

[AZJonnie]

21. This is what I've been saying. AG's of states where these people were removed from

Should file state-level felony kidnapping and false imprisonment charges and issue arrest warrants against everyone downstream from Trump (since he's 'immune' ). Start with Rubio.

[moonshinegnomie]

23. id also have the garcia sue every official into bankruptcy

sue them personally.

[AZJonnie]

24. I don't know if that's possible but if it is, then by all means

Of course it would have to be done by his family since he's completely incommunicado

[Lonestarblue]

5. Trump probably demanded that he say this.

Now the DOJ can just say that their hands are tied.

[bluestarone]

7. EXACTLY!!

[Norrrm]

13. BINGO!

[AZJonnie]

25. No probably about it, that IS exactly what happened, and why he is here in the US right now

is to perform this exact dog and pony show in front of 'our' complicit media.

[bluestarone]

6. Their plan worked perfectly.

TWO cheating no good scumbags, with another 250 scumbags in congress.

[Botany]

8. Why do I think he is dead or really hurt?

This beyond sick and a fundamental break down
of the rule of law.

[mn9driver]

15. I think this is quite likely.

The outside world may never see this man again. And no explanation as to what happened to him will ever be given.

[Botany]

16. Almost any human on earth could die from what he went through

An innocent man picked and taken 1,000 miles to a savage prison and
subjected to God only knows what by the guards and or prisoners.
The stress alone could have caused a heart attack.
And all goes back to Krasnov himself

[LSparkle]

27. My BP is up along with many others' ...

I feel like I have no country anymore. 😢

[Owens]

10. Let's see,,,, you the president - you tell the jail hand to over the man ASAP!

[WoodyHam]

11. Easy -

Just cut off all funds to El Salvadore until he is returned.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. Welcome to DU

[IronLionZion]

12. It's not that complicated. They (Bukele and Trump) don't want to do it.

probably for nefarious reasons. Garcia didn't commit any crimes and isn't charged with any crime. Why hold him in prison indefinitely with murderers? This is deplorable.

[Vinca]

14. I'll bet you anything if someone offered this character a million bucks to let Garcia walk out of prison

and onto a plane, the Salvadoran President would pack the guy's bag for him.

[lamp_shade]

17. I continue to wonder if he was disappeared even before the plane left for El Salvador.

[MayReasonRule]

18. NBC News Coverage ...

This is what Nazis look like.



https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/president-el-salvador-wont-return-deported-man-kilmar-abrego-garcia-rcna201136

[LSparkle]

28. Fuck the media -- they are complicit

Fucking groveling and sanewashing.

I will NEVER forgive our feckless media for enabling that cretin.

[TheBadWolf]

19. With any other President...

The CIA would already be inside El Salvador partying like it's 1989. Too bad trump and Bukele are cut from the same cowardly cloth.

[AZJonnie]

26. What are you saying?

What do you think the 'CIA' would be 'doing' about this situation under any other President? Not following you at all, other than that, yes, CIA was probably more active in El Salvador in 1989 than now.

[TheBadWolf]

30. I'm saying they would give him the ol' Manuel Noriega n/t

[republianmushroom]

20. What are the courts going to do ?

[mn9driver]

22. Law enforcement is controlled by the executive.

Which means the court and the country are out of luck. Too bad for our republic. It was fun while it lasted.

[Emile]

31. If Congress stopped funding El Salvador to keep them

in prison, I bet the President of El Salvador would be singing a different tune. Time for Congress to obey the Supreme Court.