New Delhi, April 15 -- El Salvador President Nayib Bukele rejected calls on Monday (April 14) to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador last month.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele firmly rejected the idea of sending Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States. "The question is preposterous. How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?" Bukele said, seated next to President Trump in the Oval Office. "I don't have the power to return him to the United States."

Bukele's comments came in response to questions regarding the US Supreme Court's ruling and the US government's requests for Garcia's repatriation.

Trump administration officials insisted that Garcia, who was sent to ...