Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, tried and failed on Wednesday to secure a meeting in El Salvador with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant and Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration. He remains held in a notorious maximum security prison known for human rights violations, despite court orders calling for his return to the U.S.
Van Hollen met with El Salvador’s vice president, Félix Ulloa, as well as officials at the U.S. embassy there, but he came away with no assurances that he would be able to see or even speak to Abrego Garcia.
Van Hollen’s trip was the latest chapter in an intensifying political battle over the case of Abrego Garcia, who was removed from the U.S. last month in what immigration officials acknowledged was an error.
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