“El Salvador President Nayib Bukele claimed Monday that he has no ability to send a Maryland man deported to the Central American country back to the US despite a US Supreme Court ruling directing the Trump administration to take “steps to facilitate” his return.
“I hope you are not suggesting that I smuggle terrorists into the United States,” Bukele told reporters while sitting alongside President Trump in the Oval Office. “Of course, I’m not going to do it.
“The question is preposterous,” Bukele added. “I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.””
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