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Schumer: El Salvador refusal to return mistakenly deported man 'pure nonsense' 

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15.04.2025

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) panned Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Monday after he said that he has no plans to return a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to his country earlier this year, calling the plan “pure nonsense.”

When asked by reporters if he will return Kilmar Abrego Garcia after the Supreme Court ruled last week that the U.S. must “facilitate” such a move, Bukele shot back: “Of course I’m not going to do it.”

Schumer heaped criticism on those remarks, pointing to the Court’s order.

“President Bukele’s comment today is pure nonsense. The law is clear, due process........

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