More Dems work to join Sen. Van Hollen in El Salvador to push for alleged gang member's return to US
Several more congressional Democrats have made statements or issued requests to leadership to trip to El Salvador in hopes of bringing imprisoned deportee and accused MS- member Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to Maryland Sen Chris Van Hollen D-Md remained in the Central American country as of Thursday morning after Salvadoran Vice President Felix Ulloa rejected his entreaties to contact or free the alleged gang member on Wednesday A representative for Rep Yassamin Ansari D-Ariz proven to Fox News Digital on Thursday that the freshman lawmaker would be taking a trip to El Salvador to essentially aid Van Hollen's efforts Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be home in Maryland right now Ansari noted in a separate comment His illegal abduction and the subsequent complete dismissal of the Supreme Court ruling is deeply disturbing Our rights shouldn t be revoked to propagate Trump s authoritarian agenda This is a constitutional situation DOJ INDICATES TRUMP ADMIN NOT OBLIGATED TO RETURN MAN DEPORTED TO EL SALVADOR PUSHING BACK ON JUDICIARY He s already revealed that he s ready and willing to illegally deport home-growns and American citizens If this can happen to Mr Garcia it can happen to any of us My parents fled an authoritarian regime in Iran where people disappeared I refuse to sit back and watch it happen here too That s why I plan to join my colleagues in traveling to El Salvador to visit Mr Garcia and make sure Trump s war on our Constitution and due process stops here Reps Maxwell Frost D-Fla and Robert Garcia D-Calif also wrote to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer R-Ky requesting a former CODEL congressional delegation authorization to visit Tecoluca El Salvador where the infamous El Salvadoran mega prison Terrorism Confinement Center CECOT is located Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia a Salvadoran national legally living and working in Maryland was subject to a withholding order from an immigration judge prohibiting his removal to El Salvador Frost and Garcia wrote A Congressional delegation would allow Committee Members to conduct a welfare check on Mr Abrego Garcia as well as others held at CECOT Additionally Sen Cory Booker D-N J is reportedly planning to expedition to CECOT according to reports from Politico and Axios His office did not respond to a Fox News Digital inquiry NOT A MARYLAND MAN GOP BLASTS DEMOCRAT SENATOR FIGHTING FOR RETURN OF SALVADORAN NATIONALFox News Digital reached out to Comer s office for comment and whether other lawmakers had contacted him seeking CODEL authorization Squad member Rep Delia Ramirez D-Ill also wrote to House Homeland Assurance Committee Chairman Mark Green R-Tenn demanding her own CODEL to El Salvador given that the Administration's use of CECOT for illegal and unconstitutional deportations is rife with administrative errors While not party to the letter to Comer Ansari tweeted Monday that we need answers now from either regime She stated she is ready to join Van Hollen and Frost and Garcia if they go to demand the man s release BONDI DEFIANT SAYS ABREGO GARCIA WILL STAY IN EL SALVADOR END OF THE STORY Rep Becca Balint D-Vt also suggested to Axios that excursion to El Salvador may be necessary We have to do similar kinds of things for the others who are casualties of this dystopian attack on our Constitutional rights This president is dangerous and we can't let this go she explained Meanwhile at least two Republicans have also traveled to CECOT albeit for different reasons Rep Riley Moore R-W Va tweeted a photo from the prison saying he just finished a tour and that plenty of inmates were extremely violent newest U S -deportees I leave now even more determined to sponsorship President Trump's efforts to secure our homeland Moore explained House Procedures and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith R-Mo appeared to comment on Van Hollen s trip in his own post from the prison writing It is unconscionable that Democrats in Congress are urging the release of more foreign criminals back into our country CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPHomeland Defense circulated new documents this week that it says definitively prove Abrego Garcia who is imprisoned at CECOT after his deportation from the U S is a member of the notorious MS- gang which his lawyers deny Abrego Garcia also allegedly has a record of being a violent repeat wife beater according to records filed in a Prince George s County Maryland district court by his wife Fox News Digital reached out to Booker Frost Balint Ramirez and Garcia for further comment
