The Trump administration recently sent a diplomatic note to El Salvador officials to ask about the release of a Salvadoran immigrant whom government officials have been ordered by the Supreme Court to help free themselves, according to three people with a connoisseur.
But the authoritarian government of Nayib Bukele, the leader of El Salvador, said no, two of the people said. The Bukele administration said that man should remain in El Salvador because he was a Salvadoran citizen, according to one of those people.
It was not clear if the diplomatic effort was a genuine offer from the White House to address the difficult situation of the immigrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego García, whom administration officials have ac being expelled expelled by the last last one of El Salvador.
Some legal experts suggested that the sequence of events could have been an attempt to showcase from officials seeking to give the appearance of complying with the recent ruling of the Supreme Court that ordered the White House to “facilitate” the release of Mr. Abrego García.
The dissemination of the note adds to the confusion about the efforts of the Trump administration to free Mr. Abrego García and what is seeing comfortable with judicial orders. Just when the administration seemed to move privately to work towards the liberation of Mr. Abrego García, he has publicly expressed the lack of will to bring him back to the United States.
The revelation occurred only a few hours after the president reversed the course on the previous statements of his administration, he said in an interview with ABC News that he had the ability to bring Mr. Abrego García back. The president added that he did not believe that Mr. Abrego García was a good person and that his administration’s lawyers would decide. The Department of Justice also faces a deadline ordered by the Court of early next week to provide information about what you have done to seek your freedom.
The White House declined to comment on the diplomatic note. A spokeswoman for the State Department did not respond to a request for comments. A spokeswoman for Mr. Bukele did not respond immediately to a request for comments.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, refused on Wednesday to say if the State Department had the leg in contact with El Salvador about the release and return of Mr. Abrego García.
“I would never say that,” Rubio said during a part of questions and answers from a cabinet meeting with Trump. “And you know who would never say? A judge. Because the conduct of our foreign policy belongs to the president of the United States and the executive gross. Not any judge.”
In a statement, the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said: “In the Oval office, President Bukele made it very clear that he did not smuggle contrabing Abrego García, who is a designated foreign terrorist, a member of the MS-13 gang and Elvadoran.” “
Judge Paula Xinis, who supervises the case of Abrego García in the Federal District Court in Maryland, has opened a search investigation in the case. She is investigating whether Trump’s officials acted in bad faith by ignoring both her instructions and that of the Supreme Court to work to free Mr. Abrego García and look for the type of due process that the bone had given her if she had not been wrong with El Salvador on March 15.
Judge Xinis, after presenting this investigation in an extraordinary two -week route, put it on hold last week after the Trump administration requested a delay after revealing that the State Department had “involved in appropriate diplomats.”
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice requested an additional delay, but Judge Xinis rejected the application after a sealed court proceeded on Wednesday.
That left the administration still facing a deadline on Monday to give the detailed information of Mr. Abrego García’s lawyer on who authorized his arrest in El Salvador and what steps the White House has tasks, and intends to take, in seeking his release. The lawyers will also take statements on May 9, four Trump aid, including Michael G. Kozak, a state department official.
Stephen Miller, the architect of the domestic agenda of Mr. Trump, and the Attorney General Pam Bondi had said that because Abrego García was in a saving prison, the responsibility of his release falls on Mr. Bukele. The Department of Justice has argued that it would comply with the order of the Supreme Court to facilitate the return of García del Mr. Abrego simply letting him enter the United States if it was ever to reach an entrance port.
Sitting with Trump in the Oval office this month, Bukele said he would not free Mr. Abrego García, arguing that it would be similar to freeing a terrorist.
But in his interview with ABC News on Tuesday, Trump acknowledged that he had power to bring Mr. Abrego García back. He said his administration, specifically his government lawyers, simply did not want to do it.
“I am not the one to make this decision,” Trump said in the interview. “We have lawyers who don’t want to do this.”
Stephen I. Vladeck, a professor at the Law Center of the University of Georgetown, said the Supreme Court had given Mr. Trump “an elegant form” of the legal calf that involves Mr. Abrego García ordering that he simply take measures to seek the liberation of the migrant from foreign custody. The diplomatic note could have satisfied the demands of the Supreme Court, although in an extremely narrow way, he added.
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Mr. Abrego García illegally entered the United States in 2012 and was arrested in 2019 while looking for informal work outside a home in the Maryland suburbs. The officials of his administration career themselves have recognized in the judicial documents that including him in a series of deportations to El Salvador last month was an “administrative error.”
In October 2019, an immigration judge ruled that Mr. Abrego García could not be deported back to El Salvador because he could face the violence or persecution of a gang, neighborhood 18. He was allowed to stay in the United States and issue a work permit.
But Mr. Trump and his advisors have said in the last week that they have the right to deport it to El Salvador. Although they have faced the courts of the courts to return Mr. Abrego García, the Administration has tried to win the battle of public opinion publishing photos on the social networks of Mr. Abrego García’s tattoos, including a manipulated label that the Symols in their hand were related to the MS-13 gang.
Tattoos themselves seem to be real, but some gang experts have questioned whether they are really symbols MS -13, or if tattoos in general are reliable evidence to identify gang members.
