Mariland Sen. Chris Van Hollen returned from his trip to El Salvador on Friday Meeting with Kilmar Abrego GarciaThe man who was deported due to an administrative error.
Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday, 16. April, to check the health and prosperity of Abrego Garcia, a month after it was deported in Salvadoran Supermak Prison Known as CECOT.
“His conversation with me was the first communication he had with anyone outside of prison, because he was kidnapped. He said he felt very sad that he was in prison because he did not commit any crimes,” Van Hollen said.
However, he said, Abrego Garcia since then moved to another prison in which it says the conditions are better.
“He told me yesterday, eight days ago, before today, was moved to the second detention center. But he still has no access to any news that he cannot communicate with anyone in the outside,” Van Hollen said.
Abrego Garcia is “Traumatized” in Cecot, Van Hollen says
Van Hollen said he asked Abrego Garcia as he was dealing with his circumstances.
“He said it was thinking about you, members of his family, what gave him a history to persevere, to continue the day in the day, even under these horrible circumstances,” Van Hollen recounted.
During their conversation, Abrego Garcia described their experience in CECOT.
Abrego Garcia said that after they detained him by the icy officials, he was taken to the Baltimore Detention Center, where a phone call was rejected. He was then relocated to another facility in Texas before he was placed on a plane in El Salvador.
“I don’t know whether it was a period of time, he was licically, fastened, where they did not know where they said. They did not know each other in the plane. They said certainly where they went.
After arriving in prison, Abrego Garcia was placed in a cell with about 25 other prisoners.
“The Government in this case, Trump Administration, confirms the right to insert the inhabitants of this country in foreign prisons without appointment due to the basis of our constitutional order,” Sen said. Van Hollen. “He was traumatized by making many prisoners in other cellular blocks that called him and that he told me in various ways, told me.”
Van Hollen faced challenges trying to meet Abrego Garcia
During his trip, Van Hollen at first faced challenges when he was trying to coordinate a meeting from Abrego Garcia.
On the first day of his trip, Senator Senator met with Salvador Vice President Felix Ullo, which Requested Request Van Hollen For a meeting or phone call from Abrego Garcia.
“When I met the Vice President El Salvador, I asked him not to be quite complacent in taking the Administration in the United States and to get rid of Mr. Abrega Garcia,” Van Hollen said during the press conference.
On Thursday morning Van Hollen said he was turned from a military checkpoint Close to CECOT by soldiers who are ordered to let him continue.
However, on Thursday night, the Senator confirmed Met with Abrego GarciaSharing a photo of their meeting on what the restaurant seemed to be.
“I called his wife, Jennifer, to pass his message of love”, Van Hollen said in the function of social media.
President El Salvador Naiib Bukele joint photos of the meeting Also, I say Abrego Garcia, “he received the honor of stay in the detention of El Salvador.”
The journey did not come without return tools from Republicans.
With White House members invite to Van Hollen travel “disgusting” and President Trump, who is undergoing a decision to deport Abrego Garcia, despite the orders of the Supreme Court to facilitate his return.
“This man, according to the certified statements, is a very violent person and want this man to return to our country in which it can be free. Maryland, he is a Marienny’s father, he said in effect.
Abrego Garcia Deportation
Abrego Garcia is El Salvador’s birthday that illegally entered the United States in 2011. years.
In custody, it was boarded by American agents and funds for application and customs (LED) in March as he left his job in Baltimore.
He and about 200 other migrants translated into CECOT in El Salvador plane in the direction of Trump administration.
His deportation provoked a legal battle because it was under the order for the protection given by the Immigration Judge in 2019. years. The “Removal retention” order was due to prevent it from being deported in El Salvador.
Ice officials were recognized in the court that submit to Abrego Garcia deportation occurred due to an administrative error, although they did not move their mistake.
The legal proceedings are still played in the Federal Court after the trump was determined by the Federal Judge, and later the Supreme Court to Facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia in the USA
Abrego Garcia has no criminal history.
FILMER ABREGO GARCIA ALLEGED MS-13 TEJA
Trump administration still claims Abrego Garcia Member of Transnational Gang MS-13. Abrego Garcia lawyer and family denied allegations.
“They try to form this case about MS-13, when in fact, the judge in this case said they did not give significant or any significant evidence to support their claim,” Van Hollen said.
They cite about connecting Abrego Garcia with MS-13 stem from its arrest in 2019 years. Court documents show that Abrego Garcia was arrested outside the domestic warehouse with three more men, of whom the two two had suspicious gangs.
According to his lawyer, Abrego Garcia was looking for a job outside the store when police appeared and began to examine men about belonging gangs.
Toward Court documents shared by lawyer General Pam BondiThe detective recognized one of the men in the group as a member of the MS-13 gang with a criminal history.
Detectives stated in their report that the other man had tattoos that were “indicative about the culture of the Latin American gang.”
After talking about Abrego Garcia, the police noticed that she was wearing a chicago hat and a hood with symbols they said they also pointed to the gang culture. The source police previously used and reported that Abrego Garcia was an active member MS-13, according to court documents.
After that, he was arrested and later appeared in court, where his Immigration Court approved the “retention of removal” and work permit.
