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Van Hollen describes dramatic meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador upon return to US
ABC News | Disney ^ | April 18, 2025 | By Ivan Pereira, Rachel Scott, Allison Pecorin, and Isabella Murray

Posted on 04/19/2025 6:10:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Sen. Chris Van Hollen took aim at President Donald Trump and the El Salvador government over their treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the migrant who the government said in court was erroneously deported to El Salvador, and for trying to deflect from the notion that the U.S. government is flouting court orders to "facilitate" his return to the U.S.

The Maryland Democrat joined Abrego Garcia's wife and mother and other supporters at Washington Dulles International Airport on Friday and spoke about his three-day visit, providing more details about the one-hour conversation he had with Abrego Garcia.

Van Hollen took aim at the president for slamming him earlier in the day for the visit.

Trump has maintained claims, without providing evidence in court, that Abrego Garcia is a violent member of MS-13.

Van Hollen repeated that Trump is lying about the case and attempting to change the story from being about Abrego Garcia's due process rights to allegations of gang membership and violence.

"So the effort by the Trump administration to try to conflate these two issues goes to the heart of what I was just talking about: their effort to change the subject," Van Hollen said.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deportation; illegalaliens; journalism; press
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1 posted on 04/19/2025 6:10:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dramatic over margaritas and cheese.

Sounds like a lovely triste


2 posted on 04/19/2025 6:12:47 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( All Democrats are pedophiles )
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What a complete, un-American $#%@ show!


3 posted on 04/19/2025 6:17:14 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He just keeps digging that hole. 😏


4 posted on 04/19/2025 6:20:01 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

No consequences for this kind of crap.


5 posted on 04/19/2025 6:20:07 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Democrats Senators meets with his MS 13 Consigliere.

Yes we understand now. MS 13 runs the drug gangs for benefit of the Democrats.


6 posted on 04/19/2025 6:21:51 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I mean ... just dam! This is what we are up against. No peace.


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7 posted on 04/19/2025 6:24:50 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How would Hollen get this guy back into the US smuggler him in ?


8 posted on 04/19/2025 6:26:30 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good thing he didn’t have a machete.


9 posted on 04/19/2025 6:28:58 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

All the Dems and the propaganda media’s efforts to gin up sympathy for this and similar monsters and to trick Americans into a wildly false reality is one of the most morally repulsive things I’ve seen in a first world, free nation. But of course these people always put criminals before their innocent victims, illegals before American citizens, the elites above everyday Americans.

Rather than being an innocent Maryland father who should be returned to his family, his wife filed a police report about how he punched her on many occasions, scratched her eye, hit her with his work boot, ripped her clothes off of her, and made her live in fear. She said she had photos of the black eye he gave her and of the bruises from the beatings. He had a restraining order placed on him because of this.

And then there’s the local police report of him being picked up far from his home with a vehicle full of illegals. The police alerted the FBI to what they considered to be his engaging in human trafficking. The reason he wasn’t charged was because Biden’s FBI told the police to just let him go.

And of course two judges had already determined he was in fact an MS-13 gang member. He had a credible informant who confirmed the details of his membership in MS-13 to the police including his rank and gang nickname. And the government of El Salvador also confirmed that they have intelligence that he is an MS-13 member.

He has common MS-13 gang symbols on his fingers. He was wearing a hoodie with MS-13 symbols when he was arrested with two other known MS-13 members. He had rolls of cash and drugs on him. And the media don’t care at all about any of these facts, as they focus on manipulating the public in to thinking he’s a completely innocent American or at least a legal immigrant and use it to fearmonger like wild. It’s just sickening. We can’t ever forget how our opponents choose evil in almost any debate.


10 posted on 04/19/2025 6:33:36 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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ElSalvador. The pics of the 2 of them. There’s a 3rd person in the pic. Methinks it’s gotta be an interpreter. Something tells me his English is not up to par of a ‘dreamer’ after 13 years.


11 posted on 04/19/2025 6:47:11 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: FlyingEagle

When you’re on the take with MS-13 you do what you’re told to do.


12 posted on 04/19/2025 6:55:55 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It took four Disney princesses to write this.


13 posted on 04/19/2025 7:19:37 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Universities in this country are nothing but Houses of Prostitution for the wealthy.)
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To: plain talk

The frigging crap from down below is starting to look like a serious case of the crabs.


14 posted on 04/19/2025 7:21:08 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Universities in this country are nothing but Houses of Prostitution for the wealthy.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Keep dying on this hill, Democrats.


15 posted on 04/19/2025 7:44:46 AM PDT by cowboyusa
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Trump has maintained claims, without providing evidence in court, that Abrego Garcia is a violent member of MS-13.

I saw reported yesterday that a court, and then an appeals court, ruled that Garcia was/is a member of MS-13.

16 posted on 04/19/2025 7:50:50 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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Trump has maintained claims, without providing evidence in court, that Abrego Garcia is a violent member of MS-13.

I saw reported yesterday that a court, and then an appeals court, ruled that Garcia was/is a member of MS-13

17 posted on 04/19/2025 7:52:26 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Democrat Freakshow gets freakier and freakier!


18 posted on 04/19/2025 7:55:39 AM PDT by Savage Beast (There's a Light over the Whole World. I just want everybody to be happy, healthy and well. --DJT)
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The wife must enjoy being beaten up.

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As for the senator:

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Traitorous idiot who didn't even bother to contact Maryland mother-of-five Rachel Morin's family after she was killed by an illegal.

19 posted on 04/19/2025 8:15:54 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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Is the illegal’s first name Kilmar or Killmore? /sarc


20 posted on 04/19/2025 8:26:18 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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