The US senator Chris van Hollen, D-Md., Correct, meets on April 17, 2025 in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the inhabitant of Maryland, who was incorrectly deported by Ice Agents to El Salvador in March. (Photo with the kind permission of van Hollens office)
Washington-Kilmar Abrego Garcia stays in prison in El Salvador after he was incorrectly deported more than a month ago, and the Democrats of the Senate said on Thursday that they will submit a privileged resolutions that would request the Foreign Ministry to report on human rights conditions in Cecot, which would report a brutal facility with 40,000 capacities in which the Garcia-Garcia-Garcia was initially in Interfer, in the Brutal 40,000-year-old.
The resolution would also force the Trump government to detail its steps in order to meet court commands to remove Abrego Garcia and other immigrants from the United States.
The announcement of the resolution After President Donald Trump was classified during an ABC News interviews that was broadcast on Tuesday, he could secure the return of Abrego Garcia from El Salvador if he wanted.
However, Trump refused to do this and claimed that Abrego Garcia had gang bonds. He pointed to a changed photo of Abrego Garcia’s ankles, on which they showed the characters “MS-13”.
When the ABC news journalist Terry Moran pointed out that the photo was photoshopped, Trump argued that it was not the case.
“Why don’t you just say” yes, he does it, “Trump said to Moran and referred to the MS-13 tattoo. Moran did not answer and switched to another topic.
The Ministry of Justice claimed that Abrego Garcia is a leader in the MS-13 gang, but has not submitted any evidence of these connections in court. In 2019, Abrego Garcia received protection protection for immigrants from an immigration judge for concerns that he would experience violence through gangs when he had returned to his home country El Salvador.
The Supreme Court of the United States, an appellate court and a district court have all confirmed that Abrego Garcia, a resident of Maryland, from whom the Trump government admitted, has to be incorrectly deported to a notorious prison.
“Donald Trump should stop trampling the constitutional rights of people who live in America, and the government of El Salvador should stop conspiring with the Trump government in order to violate the constitutional rights of those who live in America, including Abrego Garcia,” said the democratic senator of Maryland, Chris van Hollen, at a press conference at the Senate resolution on the Senate.
The Supreme Court decided last month that the Trump government had to “facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia, but was no longer sent to a federal judge to clarify how the return could be “brought about”.
The case is now in the closed procedure in front of the US district judge Paula Xinis in Maryland, as the discovery and deposits of civil servants who were interviewed under oath about the case of Abrego Garcia continue. Xinis denied the Trump government’s application on Wednesday after further expansion to provide information about Abrego Garcia.
Payment of 6 million US dollars
The resolution supported by Van Hollen, the chairman of the Senate of Senate Chuck Schumer and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, would demand that the Foreign Ministry give a human rights report on El Salvador.
It is also expressly asked for a report on the prison, known as Centro de Concramiento del Terrorismo or Cecot, in which Abego Garcia was originally sent together with almost 300 other men in March
The Foreign Ministry has published a report from 2023 in El Salvador on human rights conditions, which found that there were reports on “Systemic abuse in the prison system, including guards and the use of electric shocks”.
If the resolution manages to say goodbye to the Senate and House controlled by the Republicans and the Foreign Ministry does not issue a human rights report within 30 days, any foreign support for El Salvador would be canceled.
The Trump government has declared that it pays El Salvador 6 million dollars to capture the men in Cecot.
Van Hollen said about this financing that the Trump government El Salvador had previously paid about 4 million US dollars to capture the men and plans to pay up to $ 15 million.
Experts have expressed concerns The fact that the foreign aids for El Salvador from the Foreign Ministry violate Leahy’s law, which prohibits the financial support of “units of foreign security forces” – to which employees of military and law enforcement agencies in prisons can also include – due to credible allegations of the gross law violations.
From Rolling Meeting in El Salvador
Van Hollen also met with the persistence of the Trump government that Abrego Garcia cannot be returned because he lies in El Salvador’s custody.
Van Hollen, who traveled to El Salvador last month to meet Abrego Garcia, said during this trip that he spoke to El Salvador Vice President Félix Augusto Antonio Ulloa. Van Hollen said Ulloa told him: “The only reason why the government of El Salvador (Abrego Garcia) holds is that the Trump government (El Salvador) paid for it.”
From running was initially denied a visit With Abrego Garcia. But he was finally able Secure a personal meeting Under the close supervision of Salvadoranian officials.
Abrego Garcia performed with van Hollen in civilian clothes – a forceful difference to a video published by the Trump government, which showed Abrego Garcia in a prison uniform and was roughly treated by Salvorian officials.
In response to the personal meeting, the White House wrote on its official social media account that Abrego Garcia “does not come back”.
Van Hollen said that since the visit of El Salvador he had no update about the condition of Abrego Garcia.
Message for Bukele
During the first visit to El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in April in the Oval Office, He declined to return Abrego Garcia. In the same meeting, Trump asked Bukele whether he would take “local” criminals what the US citizens meant.
Kaine said he had a message for the President of El Salvador if he accepted US citizens for imprisonment.
“You might think that it is currently cute to attract attention through a bromance with President Trump,” he said, adding in Spanish that every alliance with Trump will be compact -term and will end with the end of his term. “If you believe that you forget that you violate the human rights of American citizens, you are wrong,” said Kaine.
Van Hollen added that together with Kaine and Schumer, he was planning to have a law on the introduction of sanctions against Bukele and all those who are part of his government that conspired with Donald Trump to rob the inhabitants of the United States of their constitutional rights “.
