Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he has met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who immigration officials say was deported by error, in El Salvador on Thursday.
The senator shared a photo with Abrego Garcia at what appears to be a restaurant.
“I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar,” Sen. Van Hollen said. “Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.”
I hate how everyone repeats the administration’s claim that this was “in error.” Bullshit. They absolutely did it on purpose. Being able to say “too late lol” is part of their plan, and it’s a plausible enough excuse to reduce further scrutiny on all the other innocent people they shipped there.
The Trump administration is full of soulless monsters and they all need to be stopped, one way or another.
Why did he leave without him?
I’m absolutely shocked that he’s still alive. Amazing.
Van Hollen has joined the ranks of Dems worth a shit, and Garcia needs to be brought home pronto
Never been so happy to be so wrong. I’m glad he’s alive and functional, more Democrats need to follow up on the realities on the ground level.
Lots of negative things to say about dems but Van Hollen did a good and difficult thing here. If more dems are willing to behave like him, we can get through this.
Sure, but Garcia is still stuck in the death camp. What happened here was basicly just a photo op. Nothing was won here. Hollen just seems more sympathetic now without having accomplished anything. Garcia is no closer to surviving this than before.
Now I get why Booker went. Van Hollen was able to confirm he’s alive, and being held illegally. As long as there is someone there with the ability to pressure the optics, they can’t just “get rid of him” and the whole thing makes Trump look weak because these Congressmen can meet with him, but Trump can’t get him out?
Yep… It also puts pressure on Bukele - I mean, remember his comments to the media
“I can’t smuggle someone into the US, and I’m not willing to let them walk around my country, so I guess there’s nothing to be done”
The man didn’t say he wouldn’t return them, he made it very clear the ball is in the US’s court and he hasn’t been asked to give him back. He said it was impossible to see the victim, and yet when a US senator still showed up they arranged all this
America is the customer buying a service here…a customer known for having a huge crew of assassins with lots of experience overthrowing South American countries
I’m not willing to let them walk around my country
Which is weird too, like he’s not charged with a crime so what makes him different from a random El Salvadoran citizen?
Bukele has been locking up random El Salvadorian citizens without charges…
Yeah, they chose El Salvador because they’ve literally abolished due process. It’s like Cambodia again - someone accuses you and you’re just instantly taken away. You MIGHT get to see a judge after you’re imprisoned for a month or two, likely after you’ve been beaten half to death so you’ll confess to anything just to make the pain stop. It’s a dressed up version of Duterte’s Philippines - we’ll kidnap you and let you die, rather than just some death squad rolling up to your door (because that doesn’t play well to the media and the other can be dressed up as “law and order”).
Hmm, reminds me of another dickhead 🤔
And why not walk him back to their private plane?
This is one of a couple hundred that have been sent here already. Maybe they want to get more than just one guy out and smuggling him out would hamper that ability more than it already is.
Ideally, they’d get them all out, and if Trump wants to fight it, great. They deserve due process, and punishments that do not violate the 8th amendagnt
Understood, but for better or worse he is the face of the movement. This visit will be buried news in 24 hours.
So Trump starts a trade war with the whole damn world, demands the resources of a country ravaged by war, threatens to annex the territory of our allies and an entire ally, but when he “accidentally” deports someone who’s supposed to be here to a foreign prison in fucking El Salvatore he’s suddenly powerless to bring this one guy back?
Also when he wanted Andrew Tate back it took like a day. But then again predators stick together.
Yup. I believe you have it.
The hell, they can take him out of the concentration camp for a restaurant interview but can’t just, yah know, let him out?
Neither country can even articulate anything he’s charged with. They just say he’s MS-13 and a terrorist, but the US officer that testified years ago that he was MS-13 has been barred from further court testimony because he’s unreliable.
If anything Kilmar should be free in El Salvador, just because Trump wants him in prison doesn’t mean he should be. One man isn’t running the world. Right?
He actually came to the US on asylum from M-13, who were threatening him and his family. El Salvador is the one country on Earth he can’t legally be sent to.
Diplomatic corps in many countries usually can bend the law here and there.
Also a really troll move. Expect /r/conservative to take all these photos to show non-Nazis that they’re being hysterical.
Kidnap him back. Then go for another. No one belongs in that shit hole.
Thank god he’s alive
Happy to see that guy is still breathing.
For now. But once the media attention fades, who knows?
Multiple sources across the internet are posting this google earth satellite image of this Prison in El Salvador. 60 minutes reported that 75% of the 200 people Trump sent to this prison have no criminal record. Monday trump told the El Salvadorian president to build more prisons because he’s sending homegrown Americans next
It’s probably the first time in weeks that he was given water that didn’t taste kinda nasty.
Are visits even allowed at the prison where he’s being held? If so, I guarantee that they don’t take place in a room as nice as this.
Do you think those are even his own clothes, or did somebody go out and buy some at the last minute? Did they force him to wear a hat in order to cover his prison haircut? I imagine he was wearing a prison jumpsuit not long before this photo was taken, and was ordered back into it as soon as the meeting was over.
They really went out of their way to stage something nice looking. It’s almost as if they don’t want the general public to dwell on what a horrific situation he’s in. Then you might start to think about the incompetence, injustice, and cruelty that’s keeping him there - and the system responsible.
“Subject has no criminal history.”. Fuckers.
So someone with a 1/8 oz weed conviction deserves this treatment because they have a “criminal history”?
How the hell did you make that enormous leap from saying this guy had no criminal record?
This is reactionary. They go to meet with the person who was clearly wrongly imprisoned, but where are the calls for impeachment and removal from the Presidency? Oh wait… there are none. Cowards.
The House should be filing impeachment charges every week and adding to the list of charges each time. There’s plenty to add every damn week.
Trump has already been impeached multiple times. One more isn’t going to change your reaction.
True.
