section_path: "Facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return/Trump–Bukele White House meeting
section_name: Trump–Bukele White House meeting
paragraph_text: Trump–Bukele White House meeting
  
  During an April 14 meeting between presidents Trump and Nayib Bukele, Bukele told reporters it was "absurd" to ask if he would return Abrego Garcia. Bukele stated:
  
  Are you suggesting I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? How can I return him to the United States, like I smuggle him into the United States? Of course, I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous. 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? That's not going to happen.
  
  During the meeting, US Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that it was up to El Salvador, not the American government, whether Abrego Garcia would be released. Trump added that the reporters would "love to have a criminal released into our country. These are sick people". PolitiFact identified several misleading statements made by administration officials and Bukele during the meeting. Poynter Institute found the following statements to be misleading:
  
  Poynter Institute and the libertarian magazine Reason both found the following statements by Stephen Miller to be misleading:
  
  National Review commentator Andrew McCarthy stated that Pam Bondi's statement that two courts ruled that Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13 was "deeply misleading" and that " also departs from the Justice Department's tradition of providing a complete version of facts – even facts that cut against the government's position – because it's the right thing to do and promotes DOJ's credibility with the judiciary and the public."
  
  Trump again raised the issue of deporting and jailing American citizens, telling Bukele "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
  
  During an April 14 meeting between presidents Trump and Nayib Bukele, Bukele told reporters it was "absurd" to ask if he would return Abrego Garcia. Bukele stated:
  
  Are you suggesting I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? How can I return him to the United States, like I smuggle him into the United States? Of course, I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous. 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? That's not going to happen.
  
  During the meeting, US Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that it was up to El Salvador, not the American government, whether Abrego Garcia would be released. Trump added that the reporters would "love to have a criminal released into our country. These are sick people". PolitiFact identified several misleading statements made by administration officials and Bukele during the meeting. Poynter Institute found the following statements to be misleading:
  
  Poynter Institute and the libertarian magazine Reason both found the following statements by Stephen Miller to be misleading:
  
  National Review commentator Andrew McCarthy stated that Pam Bondi's statement that two courts ruled that Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13 was "deeply misleading" and that " also departs from the Justice Department's tradition of providing a complete version of facts – even facts that cut against the government's position – because it's the right thing to do and promotes DOJ's credibility with the judiciary and the public."
  
  Trump again raised the issue of deporting and jailing American citizens, telling Bukele "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."