El Salvador’s government denied Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s (D-MD) request Wednesday to see Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was deported by the Trump administration in a move that has sparked Democrat outrage and court intervention.
Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador in an attempt to “check on [Abrego Garcia’s] condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.” The Democrat said he spoke to Salvadoran Vice President Félix Ulloa and asked why the government is holding Abrego Garcia in a high-security prison for terrorists, Axios reported.
“His answer was that the Trump administration is paying El Salvador, the government of El Salvador to keep him,” Van Hollen said.
The senator added that Ulloa told him that he must make earlier arrangements to visit Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, as the prison is called. When Van…
