Maryland’s senator Chris Van Hollen, returned from his trip to El Salvador on Friday after Meeting with Kilmar Abrego GarciaThe man who was deported due to an administrative error.
Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday, April 16 to verify the health and well -being of Abrego García, a month after being deported to a Savior Supermax prison known as CECOT.
“His conversation with me was the first communication he had with someone out of prison since he was kidnapped. He said he felt very sad to be in a prison because he had not committed any crime,” said Van Hollen.
However, said Abrego García has been transferred to another prison where he says that the conditions are better.
“He told me, and this was yesterday, eight days ago, so nine days ago as of today, he was transferred to another detention center in Santa Ana, where the conditions are better. But he said he said that the new Halside and the ability of Hepter’s New communicate with anyone in the outside world,” said Van Hollen.
Abrego García was “traumatized” in Cecot, says Van Hollen
Van Hollen said he asked Abrego García how he was dealing with his circumstances.
“He said that thinking about you, members of your family, is what cools the story to persevere, follow the day to day, the terrible circumstances equally thesis,” said Van Hollen.
Duration of his conversation, Abrego García described his experience in CECOT.
Abrego García said he was arrested by ICE officials, he was tasks for a Baltimore detention center, and then moved back to another installation in Texas.
“I don’t know that it was a period or days, he was handcuffed, chained and put on an plane, along with some others, where they were out of the windows. There was no way to see where they are going. They landed in El Salvador,” said Van Hollen.
After arriving at the prison, Abrego García was placed in a cell with another 25 prisoners.
“He was traumatized for being in Cecot and fearful of many of the prisoners in other cells of cells who called him and made fun of several ways, he told me,” said Van Hollen.
Van Hollen faced challenges trying to meet Abrego Garcia
Duration of his trip, from Hollen initially faced challenges in trying to coordinate a meeting with Abbego García.
The first day of his trip, the senator with the Salvadoran vice president Félix Ulloa, who Denied Van Hollen’s request For a meeting or phone call with Abbego García.
“When with the vice president of El Salvador, I asked him not to be aware in the rupture of the Trump Administration Law in the United States of America and liberated Mr. Abrego García,” said Van Hollen during a press conference.
The morning of the day, Van Hollen said it had been Away from a military control point Near Cecot by soldiers who had ordered that they not let him process.
However, on Thursday night, the senator confirmed Hey with Abrego GarciaSharing a photo of your meeting in what seemed to be a restaurant.
“I called his wife, Jennifer, to convey his love message,” said Van Hollen in a publication on social networks.
The president of El Salvador Nayib Bukele also shared photos of the meeting, saying that Abrego García, “receives the honor of staying in the custody of El Salvador.”
Deportation of Abrego Garcias
Abrego García is a native of El Salvador who illegally entered the United States in 2011.
He was introduced to tasks by the United States immigration and customs agents (ICE) in March when he left his job in Baltimore.
He and another 200 migrants were transported to Cecot in El Salvador by the plane of the Trump administration director.
His deportation caused a legal battle since he was under a protection order granted by an immigration judge in 2019. The order of “elimination retention” should have prevented him from being deported to El Salvador.
ICE officials admitted in a presentation of the court that the deportation of Abrego García occurred because or an administrative error, although they did not move to correct the error.
Legal procedures are still being developed in a federal court after the Trump administration ordered a federal judge and then by the Supreme Court. Facilitation back from Abrego García to the US.
Abrego García has no criminal record.
The alleged MS-13 draws of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
The Trump administration continues to state that Abrego García is a member of the MS-13 transnational gang. Abrego García’s lawyer and family have denied accusations.
“They are trying to make this case all about MS-13, when, in fact, the judge in the case has said that they have not provided substantial or significant evidence to support their claim,” said Van Hollen on Thursday.
The accusations of Abrego García’s connection with the MS-13 voice of his judgment in 2019. The judicial documents show that Abrego García was arrested outside a home with three other men, at least two or that they had raised gang ties.
According to his lawyer, Abrego García was the work outside the store when the police appeared and began to question men about gang affiliations.
According to him Judicial documents shared by Attorney General Pam BondiA detective recognized one of the group’s men as a member of the MS-13 gang with criminal record.
The detectives indicated in their report that a second man had tattoos that were “indicative of the culture of Hispanic gangs.”
After interviewing Abrego García, the Police said he was wearing a hat and hoodie of Chicago Bulls with Symols that, according to them, were also indicative of the culture of the gangs. A police source had previously used also reported that Abrego García was an active member of MS-13, chording to judicial documents.
He was arrested with subsquit and then appeared before the Court, where an immigration judge of the United States granted him the order of “elimination retention” and a work permit.