WH Sent Fake Request To Return Man From El Salvador

The New York Times reports:

The Trump administration recently sent a diplomatic note to officials in El Salvador to inquire about releasing a Salvadoran immigrant whom government officials have been ordered by the Supreme Court to help free, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. But the authoritarian government of Nayib Bukele, the leader of El Salvador, said no, two of the people said. The Bukele administration claimed the man should stay in El Salvador because he was a Salvadoran citizen.

It remained unclear whether the diplomatic effort was a genuine bid by the White House to address the plight of the immigrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. Some legal experts suggested that the sequence of events could have been an attempt at window dressing by officials seeking to give the appearance of being in compliance with the recent Supreme Court ruling ordering the White House to “facilitate” Mr. Abrego Garcia’s release.

Read the full article. Just last night Trump admitted to ABC News that he is defying the Supreme Court on returning Abrego Garcia.

NYT: El Salvador Is Said to Have Spurned U.S. Request for Return of Deported Migrant

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u…

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— Mike Walker (@newnarrative.bsky.social) April 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM