Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are pointing to recent public comments from President Donald Trump as proof that the administration has the authority to return their client from El Salvador but is choosing not to.
In a court filing this week, the legal team cited Trump’s response in an ABC News interview in late April, in which he acknowledged he “could” call Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to secure Abrego Garcia’s return. “If [Bukele] were the gentleman that you say he is, I would do that,” Trump said, while also defending the decision to deport Abrego Garcia. The Trump administration acknowledged that it deported Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gang member and illegal immigrant, to El Salvador by mistake. A judge had ruled years earlier that Abrego
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