Fox News' Brit Hume: “You would think” El Salvador would return Kilmar Abrego Garcia if Donald Trump asked
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From the April 14, 2025, edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier
BRIT HUME (GUEST): It is important to note that the administration was told by the Supreme Court, or the ruling by the Supreme Court said the administration should facilitate his return. It didn't say it should effectuate it or bring it about, and there are obvious reasons for that, the principle one being that he is now in the custody of another government, of the sovereign country of El Salvador, of which he is a citizen.
And the Supreme Court's jurisdiction doesn't apply there, so all it can do is tell the administration to try to bring him back. But it can't go much beyond that because you're dealing here with foreign policy issues and with foreign relations. And the Supreme Court really has almost no, if any, jurisdiction over that, so what the Supreme Court did was to go about as far as I think it could.
Now, the question is bound to be asked at this hearing tomorrow, if the administration actually made a formal request to El Salvador to bring this man back to this country or to at least take him out of El Salvador. And I don't know what the answer to that is going to be, but the El Salvadorian president was pretty strong in the Oval Office today in saying he wasn't about to release this man from custody in El Salvador. So, this may turn out to be something that was done by this administration in error, sending him there, which it has admitted, but it it may not be -- it may now be beyond the reach of the courts.
BRET BAIER (HOST): Right. So you're saying if President Trump asks the leader of El Salvador to release him or facilitate, they would facilitate the return, that one would think that he would?
HUME: Well, you would think so because the relationship between this president and the El Salvadorian president is pretty tight as we could tell by their presence together in the Oval Office today. And I think that question will be asked. It was asked by a reporter, not by the Trump administration, if he would send the guy back and he said he wouldn't. But we don't know whether the administration has actually asked to have him come back or at least to have him released to U.S. custody, so we'll see.