The federal government of El Salvador on Monday rejected a request from 4 Democratic lawmakers to go to wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
The lawmakers had been making an attempt to rearrange a gathering 4 days after a go to from Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the place Abrego Garcia and his household reside.
In an interview with MSNBC from El Salvador, Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost stated Monday that he and the others had been instructed that their go to was rejected as a result of they aren’t in El Salvador “in an official capability.”
“We’re not giving him,” Frost stated. “We have now extra conferences scheduled.”
Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native who has been residing along with his spouse and kids in Maryland, was deported in March to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison — regardless of a 2019 court docket order barring his deportation to that nation on account of worry of persecution — after the Trump administration claimed he was a member of the legal gang MS-13.
The Trump administration, whereas acknowledging that Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador in error, has stated that his alleged MS-13 affiliation makes him ineligible to return to america. His spouse and lawyer have denied that he’s an MS-13 member.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant on this handout picture obtained by Reuters on April 9, 2025.
Abrego Garcia Household By way of Reuters
An official with the U.S. Division of State stated Monday in a standing report that Abrego Garcia is in “good circumstances and in a wonderful state of well being.”
“The Salvadoran authorities responded on April 21 that Mr. Abrego Garcia is being held on the Centro Industrial penitentiary facility in Santa Ana,” Michael Kozak, a senior bureau official for the State Division, reported.
Sen. Van Hollen stated that Abrego Garcia instructed him at their assembly that he had been transferred out of CECOT “about eight days” prior.
