Trump and Bukele Reveal Circumstances Around 'Accidental' Deportation
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The Trump administration has been criticized for the accidental deportation of an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. Allegations against the administration say the man was called a gang member when he was not, and many news outlets alleged that the Trump administration was ignoring a court order to return the man to the United States. And now, a very different story is coming out. During their meeting at the White House on Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele clarified why the man was arrested, his gang membership, and details on the court order that news outlets are now accused of misrepresenting.
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| 0:00.0 | The Trump administration has been criticized for the accidental deportation of an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. |
| 0:06.5 | And now a very different story is coming out. |
| 0:09.5 | During a meeting between President Donald Trump and El Salvador President Naïi Bukle, |
| 0:14.5 | they revealed what's actually happening with this deportation issue. |
| 0:18.5 | Meanwhile, the tariff war is still ongoing, but only with China, |
| 0:22.6 | which remains the last major holdout of trade negotiations with Trump. Even Canada |
| 0:28.6 | is coming to the table. And while there's now talks to China trying to dump products onto the global market. |
| 0:34.6 | And in other news, MetaO Mark Zuckerberg is facing an |
| 0:39.1 | antitrust trial alongside congressional investigations. And this could see the company get broken up. |
| 0:45.8 | I'm the Epic Times senior investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 1:00.2 | The Trump administration has fallen into yet another scandal. It's your weekly scandal. |
| 1:02.8 | This one has been around allegations that the accidentally deported a father to a prison |
| 1:08.5 | in El Salvador. |
| 1:09.5 | Sounds terrible, right? |
| 1:10.5 | Now various news outlets have alleged that the man |
| 1:13.0 | is innocent, that he was wrongfully accused of being a gang member, and it gets worse. There are |
| 1:19.0 | allegations that the Trump administration is ignoring court orders to bring the man back to the |
| 1:25.1 | United States who they say was wrong wrongfully accused. And now look, |
| 1:29.4 | they say an innocent man separated from his family is living in kind of a hellish environment in a |
| 1:35.2 | prison in another country. But it turns out there's a whole other side of this story that's not |
| 1:41.7 | being told. The man had been arrested multiple times before allegedly |
| 1:45.9 | taken in. There's more details coming out on it. And it's alleged as well that in court, he was in fact |
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