US senator presses Trump on wrongly detained man after El Salvador cites US funds

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

April 30, 2025 6:08 AM EDT Updated 3 hours ago


WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) - El Salvador is only detaining an El Salvadoran man mistakenly deported from Maryland because the country is receiving U.S. payments, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen said in a letter to the White House on Tuesday.

Van Hollen, a Democrat from Maryland, said his recent meeting with El Salvador's vice president shows President Donald Trump's failure to follow court orders. In a separate statement, Van Hollen said Salvadoran Vice President Felix Ulloa told him this month that the Central American nation was holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia "solely because the United States is paying the country to do so."

He said, "we have a deal with the U.S. government. They send people. We host them. They pay. And that’s it," the senator wrote in the letter to Trump, citing Ulloa. Their conversation "clearly demonstrates that the government of El Salvador has no independent legal basis for imprisoning Mr. Abrego Garcia," Van Hollen added. "The only reason for keeping him in prison is that they entered into an agreement with your administration to be paid by the United States.”

Van Hollen, who says the case illustrates the risks to everyone's due process and constitutional rights, met with Garcia in El Salvador after the U.S. Supreme Court told Trump's administration to "facilitate" Garcia's return to the U.S.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senator-presses-trump-wrongly-detained-man-after-el-salvador-cites-us-funds-2025-04-29/

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Link to Senator Van Hollen PRESS RELEASE - In Letter to Trump, Van Hollen Presents Details of Conversation with Salvadoran VP Ulloa that Reveal the Trump Administration’s Ongoing Defiance of Court Orders to “Facilitate” the Return of Illegally Deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Despite a Clear Ability to Comply

Link to LETTER (PDF) - https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_trump_re_mrabregogarcia.pdf

[PSPS]

1. More blah blah blah. Apparently, there's nothing that can be done about the lawlessness.

[groundloop]

2. Yep.... who's going to enforce Supreme Court rulings when tRump owns the DOJ?

It's pretty obvious where we're at when tRump can totally ignore a Supreme Court ruling.

[Dave Bowman]

3. This is absolutely disgusting. 🤢

[dchill]

4. We really need a bigger word.

[Dave Bowman]

5. I'm running out if words to describe what they do but

how about: Supercalifragilisticexpialidatrocious?