Under a deal whereby the Trump administration is paying El Salvador $6 million to house migrants deported from the United States as part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Abrego Garcia, who has been living in Maryland with his U.S. citizen wife and 5-year-old child, is being held in El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison along with hundreds of other alleged migrant gang members.
In a Monday meeting with President Trump and the president of El Salvador, Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that Abrego Garcia’s return is “up to El Salvador.”
“If El Salvador … wanted to return him, we would facilitate it,” she continued.
When reporters questioned President Bukele about Abrego Garcia, he said, “I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.”
Attorneys for Abrego Garcia contended in a motion submitted Tuesday ahead of the hearing that the Trump administration has not done anything to comply with the orders to make it easier for him to be released.
