The Democratic US Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Wednesday that the authorities in El Salvador had refused to access Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoranian man was wrongly deported and was held in a notorious prison in the country.
Van Hollen arrived in the Central American nation on Wednesday to meet up with high -ranking civil servants and to support the release of Abego Garcia.
Van Hollen, a member of the US committee for external relationships in the Senate, told Ulloa that he also told El Salvador Abrego Garcia because the United States had paid to keep him imprisoned.
“Why should the government of the United States of the government of El Salvador pay to conclude a man who illegally kidnapped the United States and did not commit a crime?” said van Hollen, a senator from Maryland, where Abrego Garcia lived.
The government of El Salvador did not immediately answer a request for a comment on Van Hollens’ visit.
The press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said the democratic senator may use taxpayers’ dollar to “request the release of illegal extraterrestrial extraterrestrial MS-13 terrorists”.
“It is horrific and sad that Senator Van Hollen and the Democrats, who applaud his trip to El Salvador today, are unable to have common sense or empathy for their own voters and our citizens,” she said.
The 29-year-old Abrego Garcia left El Salvador at the age of 16 to escape violence in connection with the gang, said his lawyers. He received a protection order in 2019 to continue to live in the United States
According to his lawyers, he has never been charged with crime or convicted of crime who denied the claim of the US Justice Ministry that he was a member of the criminal gang MS-13.
The US government does not claim authority to bring people back
The Supreme Court of the United States has instructed the Trump administration to facilitate Abego Garcia’s return after Washington recognized that it was deported due to an administrative error.
In a meeting with US President Donald Trump in the White House on Monday, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said that he had no plans to return Abrbaro Garcia. The US Ministry of Homeland Protection has said separately that it has no authority to bring the man back to the United States.
Together with Abrego Garcia, the Trump government has deported hundreds of people, mainly Venezuelans who are gang members, to El Salvador according to the extraterrestrial enemy law of 1798, without evidence and without legal proceedings.
No government has published the names of the detained men, and the men have had no access to lawyers or contact with the outside world since their arrival, lawyers said.
In March, after a judge said, Bukele wrote flights with migrants who were persecuted to the United States as part of the law on Alien Enemies that it was too late, and pictures that showed that men in the dark were roped by an airplane.
A federal judge said on Wednesday that civil servants in Trump’s administration could be exposed to his order due to contempt for the court for violating his order in order to stop the deportations of Venezuelan migrants in accordance with the law on alien Enemies.
