Bukele says he does not plan to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the United States or in the El Salvador
“How can I get a terrorist smuggling in the United States?” I’m not going to do it, ”says Bukele. “I don’t have the power to return it to the United States.”
He adds that he would not release Abrego Garcia in El Salvador either. “I don’t like to free up terrorists in the country,” he says.
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Ice stops the holder of the Palestinian Green Card and the Student Protest Manager of Columbia University
Another leader of Columbia Universitythe campus protest movement against The War of Israel in Gaza was arrested by US Immigration and application of courses (Ice), Interception reports.
Palestinian student and green card holder Mohsen Mahdawi In the United States for ten years and was one of the leaders of the pro-Palestine students’ protest movement until the spring of 2024.
In a statement to interception, the mahdawi lawyer Luna Droubi said:
Mohsen Mahdawi was illegally detained today without reason other than his Palestinian identity. He came to this country hoping to be free to talk about the atrocities he witnessed, to be punished for such a speech. »»
Mahdawi lawyers have deposited a Habeas Corpus petition Monday morning, contesting the legality of its detention, alleging that the government violated its legal and legal rights by punishing it for speech linked to Palestine and Israel.
The file said it appears that Mahdawi was faced with the expulsion under the dark arrangement used in others recent case secretary of state Marco Rubio The right to unilaterally declare immigrants as threats to American foreign policy.
The interception reports that the Mahdawi housed in place for three weeks for fear of being arrested by ice agents, as ani and militant colleague from Columbia Mahmoud Khalil has been.
When he attended an appointment for his maintenance of American citizenship at the Office of Colchester Uscis, the authorities placed him in police custody. He now faces an order of expulsion to the Occupied West Bank.
“It is a kind of death sentence,” said Mahdawi in reference to escalation by the Israeli soldiers and the settlers of the Palestinians who live there. “Because my people are killed unjustly blindly.”
The case of Mahdawi is the last of a series of ice arrests caused by the Trump administration target pro-Palestinian students and researchers present in the United States on visas or green cards.
“This is the result,” Mahdawi told The Intercept. “I will be alive or imprisoned or killed by the apartheid system.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she expects more people to be sent to El Salvador.
Noem, addressing Fox News on Monday before Donald Trump ‘S meets with the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukelesaid:
When I was in Salvador visiting President Bukele, we talked about the fact that he would accept more flights, would accept more people in Cecot. So I can’t wait for this partnership to continue.
Chris Stein
Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland will go to Salvador this week to visit its constituent Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia If he is not released from detention and has returned to the United States.
Van Hollen also asked the president of El Salvador, Nayib BukeleMeet him during his visit to Washington DC to discuss the return of Abrego Garcia.
“Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia should never have been kidnapped and illegally expelled, and the courts have clearly indicated: the administration must bring it home now. However, since the Trump administration seems to ignore these mandates of the courtyard, we must take additional measures,” said Van Hollen in a statement.
This is why I asked to meet President Bukele during his trip to the United States, and – if Kilmar is not at home in the middle of the week – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check his condition and discuss his release.
When he met Donald Trump In the oval office earlier during the day, Bukele said he would not make Abrego Garcia in the United States nor would release him from prison in Salvador.
Andrew Roth
Republican supporters of Ukraine use the Kremlin fatal missile strikes as their last evidence to convince Donald Trump that it must increase the pressure on Vladimir Putin If he wants to conclude a cease-fire contract.
Legislators and pro-Ukraine aid of the Republican Party have carefully sailed on Trump’s apparent affinity for Putin and have avoided direct intervention in their efforts to move his support to kyiv. But after Russian strikes during the Sunday’s Sunday celebrations in the city of Sumy, The advisers and allies were very vocal to condemn the attack using the language intended to resonate with the conservative religious base of the American president.
“Putin and peace apparently do not correspond to the same sentence,” wrote Lindsey Graham, Trump’s Allied senator who sought to balance his support for Ukraine with his desire to stay on Trump’s right side.
Russia’s Barbaric Sunday attack against Christian faithful in Ukraine seems to be Putin’s response to efforts to make a cease-fire and peace.
The strike came less than 48 hours after Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy met Putin in Saint Petersburg. The Kremlin described the meeting of “extremely useful and very effective”, although there is no indication that the two men have obtained concrete results. Witkoff’s outfit gesture gave his heart when he saw Putin was criticized in Washington as being excessively groaning and naive.
Joe Biden condemned the Criminal fire attack against the Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro ‘s At home on Sunday, saying that he was “disgusted” by the fire that left significant damage and forced Shapiro, his family and his guests to evacuate the building during the Jewish Passover party.
“We are relieved that they are safe and grateful to the first stakeholders,” the former president told X on Monday.
There is no room for this type of bad in America, and as I said yesterday to the governor, we must remain united against hatred and violence.
Donald Trump, Addressing journalists from the oval office earlier, also condemned the attack.
Asked about the suspect, Cody Balmer, Trump said that he was “probably a wacky job” and “not a fan”. “One thing that cannot happen,” he added.
That’s all, the press briefing is over.
Trump reaffirms that it is everything to “deport naturalized American citizens who commit violent crimes in Salvador
When asked if he was open to the expulsion of naturalized American citizens in Salvador, Trump says yes, “if they are criminals”.
It includes them, they are as bad as anyone. I am absolutely for that.
He adds that the United States can do it via El Salvador “for less money and have great security”.
There are “others” with which the administration also negotiates, adds Trump.
Trump repeats the threat of hitting Iran militarily if he does not give up the nuclear program
Trump says that Iran must abandon any campaign for a nuclear weapon or cope with severe consequences that may include a military strike on Tehran’s nuclear installations.
“Of course, this is the case,” said Trump when asked if a potential answer could include strikes on Iranian nuclear installations.
Trump says he expects to impose prices on imported pharmaceuticals “in the not too far future”.
Trump says he plans to expel “as many people as possible” who are in the United States “illegally”
Asked the number of “illegal criminals” which he will export from the United States, Trump says that he will expel “as much as possible.”
Referring to the notorious of El Salvador’s Cecot prison, where the expelled people were sent, Trump says that he asked Bukele if he could build more. He suggests that it would be open to helping Salvador financially to do so.
“The United States’s foreign policy is led by the President of the United States, not by a court. And no court in the United States has the right to conduct foreign policy in the United States, ”adds Marco Rubio.