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El Salvador president refuses to order return of wrongly deported US man (www.theguardian.com)
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The president of El Salvador said in a meeting with Donald Trump in the White House on Monday that he would not order the return of a Maryland man who was deported in error to a Salvadorian mega-prison.

“The question is preposterous,” Nayib Bukele said in the Oval Office on Monday, where he was welcomed by Trump and spoke with the president and members of his cabinet. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I’m not going to do it.”

He added: “I don’t have the power to return him to the United States,” and said he would not release the man, Kilmar Abrego García, into El Salvador either. “I’m not very fond of releasing terrorists into the country.”

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[–] BowlingForBowls 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I'm not going to do it."

Republicans have claimed Mexico has been doing exactly this for decades. Even if he was a terrorist (he's not) then by conservative LoGiC he could already be back by now. Conservatives have to drop everything they've believed for years to read this and not see the glaring holes in it.

[–] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

The trick is that they've never believed any of it!