“How can I return him to the United States? I smuggle him into the United States? Of course I’m not going to do it. The question is preposterous,” Bukele said. “I don’t have the power to return him to the United States. We’re not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country.”
"To liberate 350 million people, you have to imprison some. That’s the way it works,” Bukele told Trump. Abrego Garcia has not been charged with terrorism.
Archived at https://archive.is/w3Vyt
How are the FMLN working with this? It cannot be a popular move to import several hundred “criminal gangsters” when your country already suffers from major prison overcrowding.
They don’t need to. A big chunk of El Salvador believes human rights violations are a good thing so the more the merrier. It sounds terrible but even the Cartels aren’t as bad when it comes to abusing civilians as the Maras (they’re getting there, though) so it’s understandable that they have an immense resentment. This is how Bukele even got to power in the first place.