Mariland Sen. Chris Van Hollen followed his promise to travel in El Salvador to sign in to the wrongly deported manKilmar Abrego Garcia.
From running promised to visit the country in the middle of the week If the US government failed to comply with the Supreme Court of Order to make it easier to return Kilmar Abrego GarciaA 29-year-old resident of Maryland and the father of three who were deported last month.
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When we talk to journalists at Wednesday morning, Van Hollen said Abrego Garcia “illegally grabbed the streets”, calling the situation that Trump administration created for everyone in the country “Nightmare”.
“It’s a very short way to Tyranny,” he added.
During his visit, Van Hollen told reporters to intend to check Abrego Garcia’s welfare, reports his condition and speaks with high government officials in El Salvador.
Van Hollen was in communication with the Salvadoran Embassy, but he said he would gain a better understanding who would be able to meet with once it arrives.
It remains unclear whether it will be able to see Abrego Garcia in person.
“My Overall Purpose Here is a Send A Signal That We Are Not Going To Stop Fighting for Hollen Released,” Van Hollen Said, “Van Hollen He Will Do Everything Within His Power to Secure His Safe Return.
“Maybe I’m the first senator or the first member of Congress to go down in El Salvador, but people will continue to come until home,” he continued. “He continued.
Visit Van Hollen comes to day after US President Donald Trump He met with El Salvador President, Najiib Bukela, at the Oval Office on Monday.
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Previous to us is the presidential audience on Monday, Van Hollen wrote Ambassador El Salvador who urgently asked for a meeting with Bukela.
“I met with my wife of Mr. Abrego Garcia, mother and brother, and, as you can imagine, are extremely concerned about Health, Security and Further illegal prison, as well as I wrote in a letter from 13. April.
It is not known whether Van Hollen and Bukela met.
During the trunk of Aduca and Bukela, Bukela claimed that his power was missing Abrego Garcia, saying that it would be “stupid” to “smuggle terrorists in the United States.”
Meanwhile, Trump Administration said that his return to the United States was at El Salvador.
In his judgment 10 AprilThe Supreme Court said that “the United States acknowledges that Abrego Garcia was subject to a deduction for retaining his removal in El Salvador, and that it was that El Salvador was, therefore it was illegal.”
“Proper order requires that the government” ilići release “of Abreg Garcia from detention in El Salvador and ensure that his case handles how it was not improperly sent to El Salvador.”
In front of his flight Wednesday morning, Van Hollen accused the Trump administration of the most endangered population and criticized his rough neglect for court orders and the rule of law.
“This is a person who is legally here. It’s never been charged in a criminal case, but in the United States, but in the United States, but they could say in this case, so in the United States, but in the United States, but in the United States, but in the United States, but in the United States, but in the United States States, in the United States, at least so far, but in the United States could not say they lied. Hollen said.
Van Hollen sent to an X-post-American vice president JD Vance on Tuesday.
“When the media and far left obsesses over Article MS-13 gangs and require it to the United States for * Third * Exercise of deportation, what they really want to see the vast majority of illegal foreigners to stay permanently here,” Vance wrote.
Before his illegal detention, which the US government has recognized it “Administrative error“While claiming that he was a member of the gang, Abrego Garcia has been at the US for 14 years after illegally in 2011. years to avoid the persecution of gangs in El Salvador.
County of the Police 2019 was arrested before she detained immigration and customs (LED) as the authorities believed that a member of MS-13 gangs, and the allegation of Abrego Garcia denies. His lawyers say she was never charged with a crime.
Abrego Garcia later told the immigration judge who would look for asylum and request to be released.
However, there were sufficiently verified information alleged to connect to MS-13 chapters in New York, where he never lived, to keep him behind bars.
While in prison, Abrego Garcia married his long-term girlfriend, Jennifer Vascuez Suru, who was five months in a high risk pregnancy then; She gave birth while he was in prison.
Jennifer Vascuez Sura, the wife of Kilmara Abrega Garcia, which was incorrectly deported in El Salvador, 15. April 2025. In Greenbelt, in Greenbelt administration, it has not yet acted on the judge to order himself on his return
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In October 2019. the Immigration Judge denied Abrego Garcia Asylum Asylum, but approved by the deportation protection in El Salvador due to the “wrenched fear of” a gang persecution, in accordance with his case.
He was released, and the ice did not complain.
Abrego Garcia applied with the Ice Annual and the Department of Homeland Security issued his work permit, his lawyers said in court submission. He joined the Sindia and was employed full-time as well as a chain of sheet metal.
Abrego Garcia was at one of three high flights for El Salvador 15. March who transported alleged gang members, many of whom did not have criminal records.
He is currently detained at the Center for Detention in Terrorism (CECOT), a malicious dangerous prison housing for hundreds of alleged gang members.
– With files from Associated Press
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