Bondi Says Mistakenly Deported El Salvador Man Not Coming Back

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of MS-13 and an illegal immigrant deported to El Salvador, will not be coming back to the United States, Bondi says.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wednesday that Kilmar Abrego Garciaโ€”the Salvadoran man mistakenly deported by the Trump administration in March despite a court order protecting himโ€”will not be returning to the United States.

โ€œHe is not coming back to our country. President Bukele said he was not sending him back. Thatโ€™s the end of the story,โ€ Bondi told reporters at an April 16 press conference in Washington, referring to remarks made earlier this week by El Salvadorโ€™s president, Nayib Bukele, who rejected the idea of returning him.

โ€œIf he wanted to send him back, we would give him a plane ride back,โ€œ Bondi said. โ€There was no situation ever where he was going to stay in this country. None, none.โ€

Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old illegal immigrant and alleged MS-13 gang member from El Salvador, was arrested on March 12 and three days later was placed on a deportation flight to El Salvador.

Before his deportation, Abrego Garcia had been living in Maryland with his U.S. citizen wife and children. In 2019, an immigration judge granted him โ€œwithholding of removalโ€ status after finding he faced credible threats from the rival Barrio 18 gang if deported.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has said that Garciaโ€™s removal was an โ€œadministrative error,โ€ acknowledging it had been aware of the court-ordered protection and failed to flag it properly on the flight manifest. Garcia remains detained in El Salvador at a facility that houses individuals accused of terrorism.

At Wednesdayโ€™s press conference, Bondi acknowledged the mistake, saying that โ€œone additional step in paperworkโ€ had been missed. She also said the deportation was ultimately justified.

โ€œHeโ€™s from El Salvador. Heโ€™s in El Salvador. And thatโ€™s where the president plans on keeping him,โ€ she said.

Bondi said Garcia is a member of MS-13, a transnational criminal organization recently designated by the U.S. government as a foreign terrorist group.

โ€œHe would have come back, had one extra step of paperwork and gone back again,โ€ Bondi said of what would happen if Garcia were to be returned to the United States.

Byย Tom Ozimek

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