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Anna Betts

El Salvador president refuses to return wrongly deported man with US protected status

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Kilmar Ábrego García was wrongly deported to El Salvador on 9 April. Photograph: Ábrego García family/Reuters

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.”

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