Bullshit. The President of El Salvador is coming to the White House on Monday
...he can bring Abrego Garcia with him.
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney
BREAKING: Trump administation attests that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive and secure but is under the "sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador."
Mr. Garcia was under the authority and protection of the United States. Which used to mean something in the world.
El Salvador accepted a fee from the Trump administration to hold convicted criminals in its Terrorism Confinement Center mega prison. Not one of those prisoners Trump kidnapped and flew to that gulag have been 'convicted' of anything in the U.S..
The U.S. is paying El Salvador $6m to imprison approximately 300 individuals there for one year.
Nothing in that agreement makes these prisoners property of the country of El Salvador. Presumably, if El Salvador was to try to release any of the Venezuelans on their own there would be stiff resistance from the WH.
Mr. Garcia, who was granted asylum by a U.S. judge, was 'mistakenly' abducted away to a U.S. sponsored jail in El Salvador by U.S. officials.
Under what terms did these prisoners become wards of the country of El Salvador? How does that work, and where is that established on any agreement?
There is no credible system of 'justice' in El Salvador, so calling it an 'authority' best describes the repressive intention of the courts to carry out their president, Nayib Bukele's edits against 'gangs' which have resulted in sweeping mass arrests and indefinite detention in these mega-jails without fair trial or recourse.
ICWA:
“They are saturating the courts and announcing the arrests in the press, and those who are arrested are branded, even if they are proven innocent.” He compared the strategy to the “scorched earth” military operations that led to some of the worst atrocities of the Civil War, recalling in particular the notorious case of El Mozote, in which an entire village—mostly women and children—was slaughtered by the Salvadoran military in 1981.
“These people are threatened and terrorized by the gangs on one side and by the PNC and the army who see everyone from that community as suspicious. They target whole families who are suspected to be connected to the gangs. It’s very difficult for youths to defend themselves with these extraordinary measures in the prisons, they aren’t allowed to see family or even their defense attorneys. Their right to defend themselves is being violated.”
The order allowing Mr. Garcia to remain in the U.S. was supposed to protect him from these atrocities in El Salvador, but the Trump administration is intent on feeding even more people into that hell hole, finding an outlet for his viciousness, and a kindred spirit for his cruel fascism in their barbarous president, Nayib Bukele.
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With more than 50 years of service as a diplomat, Ambassador Kozak has twice served as Senior Bureau Official for WHA: from 2019 to 2021, and since January 2025. He previously served as coordinator for Afghan refugees in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (2022-2025), senior bureau official in the Office of Global Criminal Justice (2021-2022), deputy special representative for Venezuela (2019), senior bureau official for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) (2017-2019), senior advisor to the DRL assistant secretary (2009-2017), and DRL principal deputy assistant secretary (2003-2005).
Overseas, Kozak served as ambassador to Belarus (2000-2003), chief of mission at the United States Interest Section in Havana (1996-1999), and special negotiator for Haiti (1993-1996). In addition, Kozak headed the U.S. delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation for several years in Europe’s Human Dimension Conference.
Earlier in his career, Kozak served as senior director for democracy, human rights, and international organizations at the NSC (2005-2009). Kozak also served as principal deputy assistant secretary for Inter-American Affairs (1988-1991), principal deputy legal adviser (1985-1988), and as attorney adviser to the Panama Canal Zone Government (1972-73).
A charter member of the Senior Executive Service, Kozak has received numerous awards and honors, including the Department of State’s Superior Honor Award, Presidential Rank of Distinguished Executive, Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive and the Young Federal Lawyer Award.
Kozak earned both a bachelor’s degree and a JD from the University of California at Berkeley. He and his wife, Eileen, have two sons.
not later. It will be too late.
