Officials are in “violation of international law” by barring Abrego García access to legal counsel, the senator said. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) was finally granted a meeting with Kilmar Abrego García in El Salvador on Thursday evening, just hours after he accused Salvadorian officials of violating international human rights law in a press conference...
A US senator has met with a man who Trump administration officials have acknowledged was deported in error from Maryland to a mega-prison in El Salvador. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen posted photos of his meeting with Kilmar Ábrego García, whom the administration has refused to return to the US despite an order from a...
Lately I’ve been wondering where the tipping point is: how long can pundits brandish phrases like “threat to democracy,” or debate whether the United States is in a “constitutional crisis,” before the perpetual asking of that question itself reveals the answer? If Donald Trump and his allies are whittling away at democracy’s very core, will...
Democratic leadership has been largely silent when it comes to the administration’s detention of the Maryland man. A Maryland senator has vowed to travel to El Salvador in attempts to negotiate the release of Maryland father Kilmar Abrego García as El Salvador’s president and the Trump administration are seemingly working in tandem to defy court...
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, sitting next to Donald Trump, said he is powerless to return the Maryland man. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is refusing to return Kilmar Abrego García — a Maryland man with protected status who the Trump administration deported to El Salvador — to the U.S. In a White House press...
Jennifer Vasquez Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to a prison in El Salvador during a Trump administration deportation initiative On 12 March, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driving home with his young son in Maryland when he was stopped by agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Agents took Mr Garcia into custody, then...
