Michael Schmidt

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Michael Schmidt |Alan Feuer |Zolan Kanno-Youngs |Maggie Haberman |Maria Abi-Habib

The Trump administration recently sent a diplomatic note to officials in El Salvador to inquire about releasing a Salvadoran immigrant whom government officials have been ordered by the Supreme Court to help free, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. But the authoritarian government of Nayib Bukele, the leader of El Salvador, said no, two of the people said.