President Donald Trump reiterated his refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States in a White House meeting with Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador. Trump’s defiance comes as the Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to return Abrego Garcia last week, however the Trump administration argues that since he’s in Salvadorian custody, the U.S. did not have jurisdiction, something which Bukele would say that he would not facilitate his return. In the same press briefing, Trump said he would consider deporting U.S. Citizens who are convicted of serious crimes.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled last Thursday for the Government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States. The Trump administration admitted that Abrego Garcia was deported by mistake, however argued to the high court that nothing could be done for him being detained in a foreign country.

Abrego Garcia received court orders which barred him from getting deported by the United States in 2019. Abrego Garcia and several other immigrants were deported on March 15th following Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, previously invoked during times of declared war. When asked at the White House, Bukele replied “How could I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.”

The Terrorism Confinement Center, where Abrego Garcia is detained, was commissioned by Bukele to combat gang violence in El Salvador, which plagued the country for decades. Secretary of State Marco Rubio previously made a deal with Bukele to accept deportees and “dangerous criminals,” even if they’re U.S. citizens.

“It’s very scary,” Kevin Chavez, a California native born to Mexican parents, expressed. “[Trump] could invoke the Alien Enemies Act again and begin deporting people indiscriminately without verifying who they are, and it’s going to lead to innocent people getting killed.” Chavez noted comparisons between CECOT and concentration camps from Nazi Germany from the 1930s, noting reports that inmates have died in CECOT according to Cristosal, a human rights organization.

Under immigration law, U.S. citizens cannot be deported, even as Trump and his administration try to hammer out a framework to test the legal bounds of deporting America’s convicted population.