Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's words at the White House on Monday sent shock waves.
First photo: President Donald Trump greets El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele as he arrives at the West Wing of the White House, Monday, April 14, 2025, in Washington. / Second photo: This undated photo provided by CASA, an immigrant advocacy organization, in April 2025, shows Kilmar Abrego Garcia .
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's words at the White House on Monday sent shock waves, as he said he won't be releasing mistakenly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia and described him as a "terrorist." So, what happens next after President Donald Trump's top advisers and President Bukele said they had no basis for the small Central American nation to return Abrego Garcia? There is now a serious possibility that the Prince George’s County father and husband may never return.7News spoke with Rosa Barrientos-Ferrer, a senior policy analyst for the Immigration Team at the Center for American Progress. She is very concerned that, without due process in legal cases like this, many should be very concerned in the future. “President Trump has done this with Putin, where he has swapped prisoners in exchange for another. Trump has the power to make this call and ask for his return. There is no reason why these two presidents are saying that they can’t return him when we’ve seen it done before,” Barrientos-Ferrer said. A senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said in a sworn statement that Abrego Garcia “is no longer eligible for withholding of removal” because of the administration’s claim that he’s a member of the MS-13 gang. The Trump administration has emphasized that 29-year-old Abrego Garcia, who was sent to a notorious gang prison in El Salvador, was a citizen of that country and that the U.S. has no say in his future. President Bukele, who has been a vital partner for the Trump administration in its deportation efforts, said he will not release him back to U.S. soil. Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen requested a meeting with Bukele during his visit to the United States to discuss the return of Abrego Garcia. In a letter, Van Hollen said he "urgently" wants to meet with Bukele this week. If that can't happen, Van Hollen said he's prepared to go to El Salvador if Abrego Garcia is not returned to the United States. An assertion by Evan Katz, with ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, stated that because of the Trump administration’s claims that Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13, if he were brought back to the U.S., the government would work quickly to deport him.
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