Lawmakers push to meet with Salvadoran president to plead case of mistakenly deported man [View all]

Source: The Hill

Lawmakers are pushing to meet with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele while he’s in Washington amid broader efforts to secure the return of a Maryland man wrongfully deported to a prison in the Central American nation.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) sent a letter to El Salvador’s ambassador to the U.S. seeking to arrange a meeting with Bukele, floating plans to visit the prison directly if Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not shortly returned.

“Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia never should have been abducted and illegally deported, and the courts have made clear: the Administration must bring him home, now. However, since the Trump Administration appears to be ignoring these court mandates, we need to take additional action,” Van Hollen said in a statement.

“If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/5247824-bukele-van-hollen-espaillat-washington-meeting/

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Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) (chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus) is also trying to meet with Bukele, and they too are requesting that they be allowed to visit in El Salvador as well.