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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg and Alex Woodward

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says he won’t return man who was mistakenly deported from U.S.

The Trump administration is refusing to ask El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele to release a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to his country and incarcerated in a notorious prison — and Bukele isn't interested in releasing him, either.

Bukele, who met with Trump in the Oval Office on Monday, was asked by a reporter if he’d consider releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was living in Maryland before he was arrested and deported back to his home country last month despite an immigration judge’s years-old order preventing the government from deporting him.

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