United States, outrage over migrant’s transfers to jail during Trump and Bukele’s meeting

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During a meeting between former U.S. President Donald Trump and El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, controversy erupted over the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego García, a Maryland resident, to El Salvador. teleSUR

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00:00The U.S. court will hold a hearing this Tuesday on the case of Quilmar Abreu Garcia de Salvadoran

00:05deported by administrative error to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.

00:10The Salvadoran citizen continues to be deprived of his liberty in his country of origin,

00:16even though he had a court order protecting him from deportation since 2019.

00:21Since his arrest on March 12, 2025, the family of the kidnapped migrant has been demanded

00:27his release and safe return to the U.S.

00:30For its part, the government of El Salvador underlined that there were no reasons to return

00:35Quilmar Abreu Garcia after qualifying him as a terrorist.

00:47In this context, after U.S. President Donald Trump met with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele

00:53amid general outrage over migrant transfers to Salvadoran jail.

00:57Protesters gathered in front of Salvadoran embassy in Washington, D.C.

01:01As U.S. President Donald Trump received Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele,

01:06who is now his key ally in a controversial initiative to deport undocumented migrants

01:11to a notorious Salvadoran prison.

01:13In a meeting at the White House, Bukele affirmed that he would not return Quilmar Abreu Garcia.

01:19The deportation of Abreu Garcia to El Salvador has unleashed a serious legal crisis

01:25after the Trump administration admitted that his deportation was due to an administrative error.

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