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Government has ‘very easy case’ against Kilmar Abrego Garcia


US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists on Air Force One on his way to New Jersey, the United States, June 6, 2025.

Nathan Howard Reuters

President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he was not his decision to bring Kilmar Abrago Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, and returns to the United States to confront federal charges, saying that “the Ministry of Justice decided to do this in this way, and this is good.”

“This was not my decision,” Trump said about the return of Abo Garcia in a phone call to NBC News on Saturday.

“It should be a very easy issue,” the president added for federal prosecutors.

Trump added that he did not talk to the President of El Salvadori Nayeb Bokil about the return of Abu Garcia, although the two men talked about Aberigo Garcia during a meeting in April in the Oval Office.

His remarks came after Abro Garcia returned to the United States on Friday and was accused of an indictment claiming that he was transferring people who were not law in the country.

The indictment came amid a lengthy legal battle about his return from El Salvador, which escalated along the Supreme Court.

The Abu Garcia family and its lawyers described him as a family man, while Trump and his administration claimed to be a member of the MS-13 gang.

The case drew a national attention in the Trump administration’s broader batch of collective deportation.

After the deportation of Abu Garcia, Trump administration attorneys said he was deported in an “administrative error”, as Abro Garcia had previous legal protection from deportation to El Salvador.

However, the Trump administration did not try to return Aberigo Garcia, even when the Supreme Court ruled that it had to “facilitate” his return to the United States

Democrats, including Senator Chris van Holin, DMD, said to the weeks that Abro Garcia has been deprived of due legal procedures when he was detained and deported, on the pretext that he should have been allowed to defend himself from deportation before sending him to El Salvador.

On Saturday, Trump invited Van Holin, who went to visit Alago Garcia in prison in El Salvador in April, a “loser” to defend the man’s right to due legal procedures.

“He is a loser. The man is a losing. They will lose because of the same thing. This is not what people want to hear.” “He is trying to defend a man who has a terrible record of abuse, abuse of women in particular. No, he is a complete loser, this man.”

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On Friday, Prosecutor Bam Bondi claimed that Abugo Garcia “was smuggled by human beings, children and women.

In a statement on Friday, the lawyer of the Abu Garcia described Bondi’s move as “an abuse of power, not justice.”

Christine Wilker and Alexandra Marquise


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