Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele told reporters at the White House on April 14 that an illegal alien deported back to his home country of El Salvador will not be returned to the United States.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was arrested in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 12 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Allegedly a member of MS-13, he has resided in El Salvador’s Terrorist Confinement Center for more than a month.
Attorneys for the federal government blamed an “administrative error” for Abrego Garcia’s deportation, according to a recently released court ruling.
The Supreme Court ruled on April 10 that the federal government should help “facilitate” his return, but the order acknowledged that the government could not be forced to bring him back, given that the individual is in the custody of a foreign nation.
White House officials said Abrego Garcia was an illegal immigrant and highlighted two immigration court rulings that declared him a member of MS-13.
Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on April 14 during a naturalization interview in Vermont.
The move comes weeks after the detention of Mahdawi’s Columbia associate, Mahmound Khalil, as the Trump administration continues to target non-citizen students in a crackdown on alleged support for Hamas during university protests in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by the terrorist group on Israel.
In January, President Donald Trump
signed an executive order that allows non-citizen students to be deported for expressing views aligned with Hamas and accused protesters of anti-Semitic activities on campuses.
The Trump administration has taken unprecedented steps to offer refugee status to white South Africans, specifically targeting Afrikaners who the president claims face persecution. The executive order, describes these individuals as “victims of unjust racial discrimination” and establishes a pathway for their resettlement in the United States. This move comes amid escalating tensions between the US and South Africa, particularly following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s signing of legislation that potentially allows land seizure without compensation if deemed in the public interest. How could we be expected to go to South Africa for the very important G20 Meeting when Land Confiscation and Genocide is the primary topic of conversation? They are taking the land of white Farmers, and then killing them and their families. President Ramaphosa has countered Trump’s assertions about land seizures, stating that no land has been confiscated and that the new legislation merely aims to ensure “public access to land in an equitable and just manner as guided by the constitution.”
