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The United States has no plans to bring back a man it deported to El Salvador, despite a court order and pressure from advocates, U.S. President Donald Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said on Monday during a meeting at the White House.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident protected from deportation by a U.S. judge, was removed to El Salvador in March. His case has sparked a national outcry, with critics accusing the Trump administration of defying judicial authority.
But both leaders dismissed calls to return him.
“How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?” Bukele told reporters in the Oval Office, referring to Abrego Garcia as an MS-13 gang member, echoing the Trump administration’s position. The Salvadoran president said he did not have the power to send Abrego Garcia back, and called the question “preposterous.”
Trump backed him up, brushing off reporters who asked about the Supreme Court order. “Sick people,” he said, before pledging to send more deportees to El Salvador and help Bukele build new prisons. “We will keep escalating consequences, including tariffs and maybe even sanctions,” Trump said on social media earlier.
Attorney General Pam Bondi added that El Salvador was under no obligation to accept the man back, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued the U.S. president, not the courts, sets foreign policy.
Abrego Garcia’s lawyers deny the gang allegations and say the U.S. has failed to provide any credible evidence. A federal appeals court recently declined to block an earlier ruling requiring the government to facilitate his return. “If the government wanted to prove he was MS-13, it’s had ample opportunity,” the court said.
The deportation came under the controversial 1798 Alien Enemies Act, which the Trump administration has used to expel hundreds of migrants, many Venezuelans, to El Salvador. Those removed are housed in a high-security facility known as the Terrorism Confinement Center, which rights groups have accused of abuses and detaining people without due process.
“My agriculture secretary is standing up for Texas farmers,” Trump said. “We want our water, and we want our people safe.”
Bukele, meanwhile, defended his policies, saying his crackdown on gangs had made the country safer. “I’m accused of jailing thousands. But I like to say, we liberated millions,” he told Trump. The U.S. president laughed, then asked, “Can I use that?”
Outside the White House, demonstrators gathered with signs reading “Bring Kilmar Home,” as his wife, a U.S. citizen, pleaded for her husband’s return.
There is no timeline for when, or if, that might happen.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A tsunami threat was issued in Chile after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage on Friday. The epicenter was located 135 miles south of Puerto Williams on the north coast of Navarino Island.
A shooting in Nice, southeastern France, left two people dead and five injured on Friday, authorities said.
The European Union’s next wave of eastward enlargement, particularly involving candidate countries in Central and Eastern Europe, could prove decisive for Europe’s energy security and competitiveness.
Venezuela has closed its embassy in Oslo, Norway’s foreign ministry confirmed on Monday, days after opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
NATO is reinforcing its eastern flank as Italy deploys Eurofighter Typhoons to Estonia, Finland opens a new Northern Land Forces Command, and European allies push for a continent-wide “Drone Wall” following Russian drone incursions that exposed gaps in the alliance’s air defences.
Russian jets and drones are testing NATO’s defenses, pushing Europe to rethink how it secures its airspace. Italy has deployed Eurofighter Typhoon jets to Estonia’s Amari Air Base, replacing F-35s under NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission.
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday that supplying U.S. Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine could end badly for everyone, especially U.S. President Donald Trump.
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