At her press briefing, Karoline Leavitt was asked about who is responsible for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a legal resident of Maryland who was wrongly deported to an El Salvador prison.
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00:00Okay. Still going off the El Salvador questions. Yesterday in the Oval Office,
00:05administration officials made it very clear that El Salvador is responsible for Mr. Obrado Garcia,
00:10yet El Salvador's President said we are we're not going to do anything with him.
00:14So my question is who is responsible for this man and where he's going to end up?
00:18MS. Well, no. First of all, President Bukele said that he is not going to smuggle a foreign
00:23terrorist back into the United States of America, as many in this room in the Democrat Party
00:29seemingly want him to do. Abrego Garcia was a foreign terrorist. He is an MS-13 gang member.
00:36He was engaged in human trafficking. He illegally came into our country. And so
00:43deporting him back to El Salvador was always going to be the end result. There is never going to be
00:48a world in which this is an individual who's going to live a peaceful life in Maryland because he is
00:53a foreign terrorist and a MS-13 gang member. Not only have we confirmed that, President Bukele
00:59yesterday in the Oval Office confirmed that as well. So he went back to his home country where
01:05he will face consequences for his gang affiliation and his engagement in human trafficking. I'm not
01:10sure what is so difficult about this for everyone in the media to understand. And it's appalling,
01:16truly appalling that there has been so much time covering this alleged human trafficker and this
01:24gang member, MS-13 gang member. It's truly striking to me.