The president of the United States, Donald Trump, and that of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, have gathered this Monday at the White House, where they made it clear that neither of the two countries has planned the return to US territory of the migrant deported by mistake to the megacárcel of the Central American country.
The first meeting of the second term of Donald Trump that he has held with a Latin American president in the Oval Office, has been marked by the agreement signed both countries for (CECOT) to migrants expelled from the US for alleged relationship with organized crime.
Special, the presidents approached the controversy Kilmar Abrego García Casewho was sent to the CECOT even though it had a court order that protected it from deportation and to which.
Bukele rules out his release. Asked at the Oval Office, he said he lacked competencies to return to Abrego García. “Of course I am not going to do it. How am I going to smuggled a terrorist to the United States?” He said.
However, the Central American president acknowledged that he could order his release, but made it clear that he will not. “We do not like to free terrorists in our country,” said the president, who stressed that El Salvador has become the “safer” country on the continent and does not want it to be “the world capital of murders again.”
At the meeting, the United States Attorney, PAM Bondi, was also present, who declared that the return of Ábrego García does not depend on the US government since it is in custody of El Salvador. Bondi said that I would send a plane to facilitate its return if El Salvador accessedbut he accused Ábrego García once again, who has no criminal record in the United States, of being a member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang (MS-13).
Donald Trump also gave the word to his advisor Stephen Miller, ideologist of the hard migration policy of the White House, who recalled that Abrego García is a Salvadoran citizen and pointed out that he would be very “arrogant” to tell El Salvador what he has to do with his citizens. Jennifer Vásquez, the wife of Ábrego García, defended her husband innocence last week and loaded against Trump and Bukele.
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The United States agreed to help six million dollars for El Salvador in order to use its maximum security prison, whose conditions have been criticized by human rights organizations, to house migrants who accuse of being members of transnational criminal organizations such as the Aragua train, which was born in a Venezuelan prison, and the aforementioned MS-13. The Trump administration invoked a 1798 standard, the Law of Foreign Enemies, to send on March 15 to the CECOT to 238 Venezuelans and 23 Salvadorans, including Ábrego García.
Donald Trump thanked Nayib Bukele for cooperating with his immigration plan and even expressed his desire to “step further” and imprison American citizens who commit crimes in the CECOT. “I don’t know what the laws are, but we also have local criminals and I would like to include them in the group of people we get from this country,” said the Republican.
The microphones also captured Trump joking with Bukele and stating that the Salvadoran will have to “build five more prisons.” Reflection of a total tune between Trump and Bukele, whom the White House usually gives as an example of a security model for the region, despite the fact that the state of exception decreed in the Central American country has been criticized by human rights defenders.
Trump said he has the “best relationship” with Bukele and said that the 43 -year -old Salvadoran president has not aged since the meeting they held in 2019: “I was impressed when I met him. It seemed like a teenager,” added the American president.
