In a court filing on Saturday, the administration once again indicated it has no interest in returning Abrego Garcia from the Salvadoran prison it deported him to. Per NPR, the government finally gave a court-mandated update on his status:
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is being held at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, according to Michael G. Kozak, a senior official in State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, citing the United States’ embassy in San Salvador in the filing.
“He is alive and secure in that facility. He is detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador,” Kozak also wrote.
Abrego Garcia’s attorney was not pleased:
“We are incredulous. Twenty-four more hours and still no answers as to what they’ve done so far, and what they’re planning to do going forward, to carry out the Supreme Court’s ruling.”
President Trump, in a way, echoed the administrations filing in a Truth Social post on Saturday night. Though he did not reference Abrego Garcia or his case, Trump mentioned his upcoming meeting with Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele and said everyone the U.S. deported to the country was now in their “sole custody”:
Our Nations are working closely together to eradicate terrorist organizations, and build a future of Prosperity. President Bukele has graciously accepted into his Nation’s custody some of the most violent alien enemies of the World and, in particular, the United States. These barbarians are now in the sole custody of El Salvador, a proud and sovereign Nation, and their future is up to President B and his Government.
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