During the first day of his trip to El Salvador, Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen We refused a meeting or a telephone call with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man of Maryland who was wrongly expelled in this country. Van Hollen was able to meet the vice-president of Salvador.
The Abrego Garcia affair sparked a series of legal proceedings, during which a The federal judge ordered the government to return it In the United States of El Salvador’s Supermax prison, Cecot.
The Trump administration has raised the case at the Supreme CourtWho also ordered the administration to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia.
Van Hollen went to Salvador to check the well-being of Abrego Garcia and to meet the leaders of the Salvadoran government after promising Abrego Garcia’s family that he would try to help his release.
Maryland senator hopes to see Abrego Garcia
Senator Van Hollen said he hoped to meet the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. Instead, he met Vice-President Félix Ulloa on Wednesday. During this meeting, Van Hollen said Ulloa said he would need a little more time to organize a prison meeting in person between Abrego Garcia and the Senator.
However, when the senator proposed to come back next week, he said that Ulloa had told him that he could not promise that a meeting would occur at all. Van Hollen was also denied a phone call with Abrego Garcia. Ulloa suggested that requests be processed instead by the United States Embassy.
“We have an unfair situation here,” said Van Hollen During a live press conference. “The Trump administration on Abrego Garcia. US courts have examined the facts.”
The unjustified expulsion of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
During his update, Senator Van Hollen stressed that Greo Garcia should not have been expelled, because he had obtained an “reservoir” order from an immigration judge.
“Abrego Garcia is legally in the United States,” said Van Hollen. “An immigration judge noted years ago that it would endanger his life if he had returned to Salvador.”
Abrego Garcia was arrested by the United States and the application of immigration (ICE) in March when he left his job in Baltimore, Maryland and returned home to Prince George. On March 15, he was expelled in Salvador on an aircraft with more than 200 other migrants who, according to the Trump administration, had gang affiliations.
Ice admitted later that Garcia Garcia had been expelled Due to an “administrative error”, “ However, they did not take action to return it to the United States
The alleged ties of Kilmar Abrego Garcia with MS-13
The Trump administration said that Greo Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang, an affirmation that his lawyer and his family refuse. He also has no criminal history in any country.
“The case of Abrego Garcia does not have to do with MS-13,” said senator Van Hollen. “If you listen to President Trump and the Trump administration, you would think that the American courts found that Mr. Abrego Garcia was part of MS-13, but they did not find that. In fact, recently, a judge of the American federal court said that the Trump administration had no evidence to support the assertion that he had already been part of MS-13.”
Why can’t El Salvador return Abrego Garcia to the United States?
During its update in Salvador, Senator Van Hollen asked why Abrego Garcia was still detained in Cecot and asked if the government had evidence of ABREGO GARCIA gang bonds.
“The government of El Salvador has no evidence that it is part of MS-13, so why is El Salvador continues to hold it in Cecot?” The senator questioned.
According to Van Hollen, the vice-president said that the Trump administration pays El Salvador to keep Abrego Garcia in Cecot.
When asked again why El Salvador could not release Abrego Garcia, vice-president Ulloa referred to a statement that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele gave during the visit of the White House, saying that the country cannot smuggiate Abrego Garcia in the United States
