El Salvador president refuses to release wrongly deported man back to the US

Donald Trump greets Nayib Bukele at the White House (Alex Brandon/AP)

Donald Trump’s top advisers and the president of El Salvador have said they have no basis for the Central American nation to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month.

Trump administration officials emphasised that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to a notorious gang prison in El Salvador, was a citizen of that country and that the US has no say in his future.