All posts tagged "Nayib Bukele"

An immigration expert was taken aback by a CNN report that the Trump administration is looking beyond El Salvador for a "safe third country" to ship undocumented migrants.

CNN correspondent Priscilla Alvarez posted to X on Wednesday afternoon, "Trump admin has discussed with Libya and Rwanda the possibility of sending migrants who have criminal records to those two countries, sources tell me + @kylieatwood. Trump officials are also hoping to enter negotiations with Libya to strike a safe third country agreement."

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, an immigration lawyer and senior fellow with the American Immigration Council, responded, "Whoa. Using Libya and Rwanda as a deportation spot for people from the Western Hemisphere would be unprecedented, and declaring LIBYA a 'safe third country' to deport asylum seekers to would be the height of absurdity."...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a member of the left-wing M-19 Democratic Alliance, claimed during a nationally-televised broadcast that he can't travel to the United States anymore because he believed the Trump administration revoked his visa.

The Monday night broadcast was described as a Cabinet Meeting "presented as a 'presidential address,'" during which Petro made the "offhand remark," according to The City Paper Bogotá.

“I can’t go anymore because I believe they took away my visa,” Petro said during the broadcast. “I didn’t really need a visa, but anyway, I’ve already seen Donald Duck several times, so I’ll go see other things." ...

An opinion piece in The Washington Post written by columnist Monica Hesse warned that the "administrative error from hell" that doomed Kilmar Abrego García to a notorious Salvadoran prison could easily condemn American citizens next.

Garcia, originally from El Salvador, was granted a form of asylum to remain in the U.S. to protect him from gang violence in his home country. He was living in Maryland with his wife, an American citizen, when federal agents accused him of being involved with the violent gang MS-13 and shipped him back to Central America. Garcia has denied any connection to MS-13.

At first, the White House admitted it had "made a mistake" when it deported Garcia, but domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller walked that back on Monday, saying, “This was the right person sent to the right place.” And, although the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the administration must "facilitate" Garcia's return to the U.S., neither President Donald Trump nor El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele claimed they had the power to do so....

Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg expressed his dismay at President Donald Trump's meeting with El Salvador's president Monday, in which both men proclaimed that they would not be returning a wrongly deported man back to the U.S.

Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele, the self-described "world's coolest dictator," told the press corps Monday that he would not return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

“How can I return him to the United States? Am I going to smuggle him? Of course I’m not going to do it,” Bukele said during an Oval Office meeting with Trump. ...

CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked Friday why President Donald Trump doesn't just "pick up the phone" to speed up the process of bringing home a man who was mistakenly deported from the U.S.

On Thursday, The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration must “facilitate the return” of Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was accidentally deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador last month.

However, the Supreme Court sent the case back to a lower court, so any possible date for Abrego Garcia's return remains up in the air....