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## Video: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Calls the Idea of Returning the Maryland Man Deported in Error 'Preposterous'

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_Published 2025-04-14. President Donald Trump is hosting Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House on Monday as the small Central American nation becomes a critical lynchpin of the U.S. administration’s mass deportation operation._


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### Nayib Bukele 2017 TIME Interview

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## Transcript

Can President Buckley weigh in on this? Do you plan to return him? Well, I'm not suggesting that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States. Right. It's always, how can I smuggle? How can I return him to the United States? Like I smuggle him into the United States? Or what do I do? Of course I'm not going to do it. It's like. I mean, the question is preposterous. How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I don't have the power to return him to the United States. You could release him inside El Salvador. Yeah, but I'm not releasing. I mean, we're not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country.

I mean, we just turned the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the Western Hemisphere. And you want us to go back into releasing criminals so we can go back to being the murder capital of the world. And that's that's not going to happen. Well, they'd love to have a criminal, you know? I mean, I mean, there's there's a fascination. They would love it. Yeah. They're sick. These are sick people. Well, the president, Mr. President, you said that if the Supreme Court said someone needed to be returned, that you would abide by that. You said that on Air Force One just a few days ago.

Why didn't you just say, isn't it wonderful that we're keeping criminals out of our country? Why can't you just say that it's illegal? Why do you go over and over? And that's why nobody watches you anymore. You know you have no credibility. Please go ahead.

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