Posted on 04/17/2025 5:09:24 AM PDT by V_TWIN
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., was denied a visit with a Salvadoran migrant and accused MS-13 member who was deported to El Salvador, after flying to the country on Wednesday morning.
Van Hollen intended to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29, who was deported to the El Salvadoran mega prison "Terrorism Confinement Center" (CECOT) for being an alleged MS-13 gang member, though his attorneys maintain he does not have any gang ties.
Van Hollen spoke to reporters from El Salvador on Wednesday afternoon, when he vowed to continue pressing for access to Abrego Garcia.
He met with Vice President Félix Augusto Antonio Ulloa Garay because President Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez was out of the country, though Van Hollen said he was grateful to speak about the case of Abrego Garcia.
When Van Hollen asked if he could come back next week to see Abrego Garcia, Ulloa told him he could not promise that, either. Ulloa also told the U.S. senator that he could not even arrange for him, or Abrego Garcia’s family, to speak with the inmate over the phone.
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Put this idiot in the same cell and leave him there.
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Political stunts are usually too obvious to look sincere.
What did a mere senator think he could do to override not one, but two presidents and the laws they were enforcing?
My question is who payed for this trip?.....THAT, needs to be made very public.
(Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md)
Would they be willing to keep him permanently?
Yes! Love it when showboating sinks like a rock.
His constituents the Morin family, whose mother and daughter Rachel Morin was brutally murdered by an illegal, have plenty to say about his bleeding heart act for an illegal gang banger ( so determined by 2 separate judges in previous arrests of the guy) …Van Hollen has never contacted nor offered personal sympathy to the Morins.
Lol!
Not surprised that there is no visitation or phone calls. I will wager that inmates do not have access to internet or email.
In Oklahoma County Jail (not a prison) in Oklahoma City all are denied to inmates. The jail holds federal prisoners as well as City, County, and State. In fact the only mail permitted inmates is from lawyers - all other goes to a center to open and scan, then forward the image. It is all about reducing threats to security and preventing drugs (fentanyl, deuce, other) from coming inside.
So I would imagine the only contact Van Hollen can have is none.
But, I was wondering if he flew a regular flight, first class, charter, or other plane taking more desperadoes. Probably no direct flights from Baltimore/DC to San Salvador, so a connection in Florida? Hmmm.
Oh, despite the lock downs in Oklahoma County there are about I-12 fentanyl deaths every year.
Thanks much for enlarging the tale. He seems quite the slime, and therefore venal politician.
The illegal was illegally in the country and had simply been granted a hearing to see whether to be granted asylum. Not granted asylum.
Hint - you are nothing outside of DC.
Blue state senator flies to El Salvador to visit deported migrant in prison.
Who crushed the woman’s skull in with a rock then raped her twice yes he a democrat all right.
FOX continues to avoid the truth the perp is NOT a "migrant" but an ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADER
That is why the States need to pay for their own Senators and Representatives, not the Federal Government, as it was in the beginning.
Good that he was denied.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. His next step is to get on TV asking: ‘What are they hiding? If they deny visitation, they must be hiding something.’
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