The first day of his trip to El Salvador, Maryland Senator Chris van Hollen He was denied a meeting or a phone call with Kilmar Abrego García, the man of Maryland who was mistakenly deported to that country. Van Hollen was able to meet with the vice president of El Salvador.
The case of Abrego García has caused a series of judicial procedures, doors that a The federal judge ordered the government to return it To the United States from the prison of El Salvador Supermax, Cecot.
The Trump administration raised the case To the Supreme Courtwhich also ordered the administration to facilitate the return of Abrego García.
Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador to verify the well -being of Abrego García and meet with the Salvadoran government leaders after promising the Abrego García family that he would try to help in his release.
Maryland’s senator hopes to see Abrego Garcia
Senator Van Hollen said he hoped to meet with the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. Instead, with Vice President Félix Ulloa on Wednesday. Duration of that meeting, by Hollen said that Ulloa said he would need a little more time to organize a prison meeting in person between Abrego García and the senator.
However, when the senator sacrificed himself to return next week, he said that Ulloa told him that he could not promise that a meeting occurred at all. Van Hollen also denied a phone call with Abrego García. Ulloa suggested that the requests be managed by the United States embassy.
“We have an unfair situation here,” said Van Hollen during a live press conference. “The Trump administration is lying on Abrego García. The US courts have analyzed the facts.”
Unjust deportation of Kilmar Abrego García
Duration his update, Senator Van Hollen emphasized that Abrego García should not have deported his leg, since he had granted an order of “retention of the elimination” of an immigration judge.
“Abrego García is legal in the United States,” said Van Hollen. “An immigration judge found years ago that he would put his life in danger if he was returned to El Salvador.”
Abrego García was arrested for customs and immigration control of the United States (ICE) in March when he left his job in Baltimore, Maryland and returned home in Prince George County. On March 15, he was deported to El Salvador on a plane with more than 200 migrants than Trump administration statements had gang affiliations.
ICE later admitted that Abrego García was deported Due to the “administrative error”, However, they did not take measures to return to the United States
The alleged ties of Kilmar Abrego García with MS-13
The Trump administration has said that Abrego García is a member of the MS-13 gang, a claim that his lawyer and his family deny. Nor does it have a criminal record in any country.
“The case of Abrego García has nothing to do with MS-13,” said Senator Van Hollen. “If you listen to President Trump and the Trump administration, one might think that the US courts have discovered that Mr. Abrego García is part of MS-13, but they have not found it. In fact, recently, a federal cave from the United States that Trump’s child said that the child said he had once been part of MS-13”.
Why can’t El Salvador return to Abrego García to the United States?
Duration his update in El Salvador, Senator Van Hollen questioned why Abrego García is still detained in Cecot and was asked if the government has some evidence of the ties of Abrego García gangs.
“The Government of El Salvador has no evidence that he is part of MS-13, so why does El Salvador continue to sustain him in Cecot?” The senator questioned.
According to Van Hollen, the vice president said that the Trump administration is paying El Salvador to keep Abrego García in Cecot.
When asked again why El Salvador could not free Abrego García, vice president Ulloa referred to a statement that saving President Nayib Bukele Great while visiting the White House, saying that the country can not contraband Abrego García to the United States