Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen arrived in El Salvador today but was denied by the government to visit with the MS-13 gangbanger that the Trump administration sent to prison in the country.
They said he would need to go through the embassy, which is the Trump administration.
Here’s more from The Hill:
The Salvadoran government on Wednesday rebuffed Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s (D-Md.) request to meet or speak with a mistakenly deported Maryland man, the senator said, accusing the Trump administration and others of lying about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s gang ties.
Van Hollen said Salvadoran Vice President Félix Ulloa told him the government had no information connecting Abrego Garcia to MS-13 but could not accommodate a visit to the notorious CECOT prison, known by its acronym in Spanish.
“If the government of El Salvador has no evidence that he was part of MS-13, why is El Salvador continuing to hold him in CECOT,” Van Hollen asked.
“And his answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT.”
Ulloa told Van Hollen he would need more time to arrange a visit to CECOT and said even a phone call with the senator or with his family back in Maryland couldn’t be arranged swiftly, saying the request would need to come from the embassy, Van Hollen said.
Van Hollen also asked if he could meet with Abrego Garcia next week if he returned to El Salvador, but indicated that was unlikely.
“I asked if I came back next week whether I’d be able to see Mr. Abrego Garcia. He said he couldn’t promise that either,” he continued.
Just because the government of El Salvador doesn’t have evidence of Garcia being in MS-13, it doesn’t make it untrue. He certainly was part of the gang while here in the US, as multiple judges have indicated such.
Van Hollen and other Democrats think they’ve found a wedge issue to try and hurt the Trump administration, and that’s the only reason why they even care about this issue. They lost the election badly last year and they are desperate to gain traction – and the garbage media is helping them out in spades. Because they are all one and the same.