cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28329298

The White House has dug in on its refusal to return a man who US officials have acknowledged was wrongly deported last month to an El Salvador mega-prison.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down on accusations that Salvadoran national Kilmar Ábrego García was a member of the MS-13 gang.

Leavitt also accused the 29-year-old of domestic violence, citing records showing his US citizen wife once filed a protective order against him.

A Maryland judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to bring Mr Ábrego García back to the US. But El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said on a visit to the White House this week that he did not “have the power” to return him.

    • Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.comM
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      4 days ago

      I’m not trolling. You just don’t understand the law. It’s clearly in the court order. The courts have already determined he’s affiliated with ms-13. That is why he was given an order to prevent his return to El Salvador. If he’s not part of a gang we he’s claiming now then there is no reason not to send him to El Salvador. So either he’s a gang member and needs to be deported elsewhere or he’s not a gang member and he can stay in El Salvador.

      We have laws for a reason and those who don’t fallow them should be deported.