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Meanwhile, # El Salvador rejects US senator's plea to free wrongly deported migrant https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/el-salvador-rejects-us-senators-plea
by mdp2021 2y ago
Meanwhile,
# El Salvador rejects US senator's plea to free wrongly deported migrant
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/el-salvador-rejects-us-senators-plea-free-wrongly-deported-migrant-5070606 https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/el-salvador-rejects-us...
> [Senator] Van Hollen[, who represents Abrego Garcia's home state of Maryland,] said he had asked Vice President Felix Ulloa ... why Abrego Garcia was still locked up in the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) if he had committed no crime and El Salvador had no evidence that he was a member of the street gang MS-13. // "His answer was that the Trump administration is paying El Salvador, the government of El Salvador, to keep him at CECOT"
> Bukele said during a White House visit on Monday he did not have the power to return Abrego Garcia to the United States. // Trump told reporters he did not have the authority to intervene, leaving the man in limbo