Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wednesday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia—the Salvadoran man mistakenly deported by the Trump administration in March despite a court order protecting him—will not be returning to the United States.
“He is not coming back to our country. President Bukele said he was not sending him back. That’s the end of the story,” Bondi told reporters at an April 16 press conference in Washington, referring to remarks made earlier this week by El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, who rejected the idea of returning him.
“If he wanted to send him back, we would give him a plane ride back,” Bondi said. “There was no situation ever where he was going to stay in this country. None, none.”…