Senator Chris Van Hollen, D-MD., Suggested that the United States was on its way to “tyranny” on Wednesday during an interview by El Salvador while I was on a trip to visit Kilmar Abrego García, comparing the Trump with an authoritarian government.
“This is a freedom of similar people. That does not sound a conservative idea. That is something that, of course, authoritarian governments participate. And it is a very fast path towards tyranny if we do not face it.”
Garcia, an illegal 29-year-old immigrant, was deported to the “Terrorism Confinement Center” of El Salvadoran Megaprison last month, and the authorities recognized in the Court that their deportation was an administrative error that it was the right member of Tump Trump of the notorious gang MS-13. Both a Federal Court and the Supreme Court have ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” their release and return to the US. For adequate deportation procedures.
Van Hollen announced that he was going to El Salvador to visit Garcia this week, and other Democratic legislators announced that they also planned to visit him.
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Rachel Maddow of MSNBC interviewed Senator Van Hollen on Wednesday while in El Salvador trying to visit Kilmar Abrego García. (Screen capture/msnbc)
“It is also, as you say, about the Trump administration that tries to deprive people in the United States of their freedom without due process,” said Van Hollen about the situation.
The Trump administration agreed to clear any administrative obstacle that prevents Abrego García from returning to the United States, but the attorney general Pam Bondi has said it is “To El Salvador If you want to return to him. That does not depend on us. ”
Van Hollen told reporters on Wednesday that he could not visit Garcia because he needed to make “previous provisions” to go to prison.
“I asked the vice president [of El Salvador] If I returned next week, if I could go to Kilmar, and the answer was no, it could guarantee it. I said, look, I can be the first member of the Congress here, first senator, but I can assure you that they will come more, and cannot continue to keep this man locked in this sausage prison in El Salvador, and one of the hemmen that has “has not” has not “made” donation “,,,, B.
Van Hollen said he was going to continue pursuing the case and said he asked the vice president of El Salvador to open the prison door to let Garcia out.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi spokes a duration of a press conference at the headquarters of the Department of Justice in Washington, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (Photo AP/José Luis Magana)
“Because you remember it, the White House, the president of El Salvador said, well, you know, we cannot hire Kilmar back to the United States. I said that you did to smuggle it back to the United States. We know that you can do the extent,” simply open the prison by the Attorney General Pam Bondi, said the United States would send a plane here. Obtain the Standes and Duite system. “
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Peter Pinedo, Breanne Deppisch and Greg Wehner of Fox News contributed to this report.