Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/baltimore/news/maryland-sen-van-hollen-meets-with-mistakenly-deported-kilmar-abrego-garcia-in-el-salvador/

32 comments

  1. Damn, I hope there’s enough room on the plane for Van Hollen’s giant balls.

  5. wait wtf is going on they brought a prisoner to a restaurant for a meet and greet? im glad hes alive so very fucking glad but im confused as this photo doesnt add up to me

  7. Hell of damn job by Van Hollen

    Another solid reminder to stay active and stay vocal!

  8. [Contact info for his offices](https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/contact) for anyone who wants to send thanks for his efforts here (*especially* if you’re a constituent), which I think he absolutely deserves. I’m sure the staffers will appreciate it as well, as people mostly only contact politician’s offices with complaints.

  9. Major major kudos to Sen. Van Hollen. This is what we need to continue to see from Democrats. Thank God he is alive.

  10. I was convinced he was dead, thank god I was wrong. Sen Van Hollen is a true American.

  11. Alright. He’s alive. That’s problem number one solved.

    Hopefully the next part is easier.

  12. Thank you for your courage and persistence, Senator Van Hollen!

  13. Holy shit he fuckin did it. Really throws into stark relief what a useless sack of shit Schumer is.

  14. Don’t forget, he’s never committed a crime in El Salvador. He’s only in prison in El Salvador because Trump asked them to keep him there!

  15. Chris Van Hollen launched his presidential bid today—massive W for America and due process.

  16. I’m from Maryland, and I’ve met Chris Van Hollen. I’m generally cynical about politicians, even the ones I vote for, but **he is the real deal and a good guy.**

  17. I have never been so happy to have been wrong in my entire life.

  18. It seems he was let out to speak with Van Hollen but not released. Bukele actually posted photos first and now says as much (in the snottiest way possible):

    >Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the “death camps” & “torture”, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!🍹

    > > Now that he’s been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador’s custody 🇺🇸🤝🏼🇸🇻

    https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1913035243918864742

  19. You know what has happened with this, right?

    A Democratic senator has just crushed Trump’s and MAGA’s wall of lies and threats.

  21. I am entirely shocked he’s still alive. Major credit to the senator, this is the kind of shit the democrats have to be doing.

  22. Despite Bukele’s X post with the pictures of the meeting that just scream arrogant and small dick energy, diplomatic pressure ultimately worked.

    This 100% shows that Bukele is susceptible to diplomatic pressure, and that Bukele ultimately knows that he has to keep the deportees in CECOT in a somewhat survivable condition, as he sees the international community is watching him.

  23. Senator Chris Van Hollen took some risk in unprecedented times to do what’s right. Fucking respect. This is the kind of thing people want to see from Democrats.

  24. Poor man looks shell shocked.

    Hopefully, Van Hollen’s visit gives him some desperately needed peace of mind, knowing that the whole world knows his story and is on his side.

    Well done, Senator Van Hollen!

  25. Show up every goddamn day with more Senators and Representatives until he is returned.

  26. God fucking dammit, I really needed to hear this.

    This. This is hope. This is the regime being dragged into the sunlight, and withering. And this is a man who I admit I had already written off as lost, who still has a chance. His kids get to hear he’s okay.

    This is a turning point, because people did *not* just sit and watch. We are not going to let ourselves be carried into hell.

    Long way to go yet, not at all a moment to rest on laurels or ease up on the pressure, but… I think we might actually be okay.

  27. Can we please stop saying “mistakenly” and “deported?”

    It should be “illegally trafficked.” Call it what it is. There is no mistake that the Trump administration is trying to send everybody they don’t like to foreign concentration camps.

  28. >Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele also [posted photos of the meeting](https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1913035243918864742), but suggested Abrego Garcia will remain incarcerated by his government: “Now that he’s been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador’s custody.”

    NOT the El Salvadoran POS dicktator’s call to make, the dumbass motherfucker.

    Besides didn’t Bukele lie – together w/his fellow POS dicktator Trump – that he was powerless to do anything, that it’s in the U.S. power to get Garcia back?

    Next, the other 249 prisoners – also unlawfully kidnapped and trafficked by the Trump regime’s ICE goons to El Salvador’s notorious concentration camp. Reports are that up to 90% of those 249 prisoners have **NO** criminal records. They too must be returned to the U.S. to be given their due process rights under the rule of law – **NOT** Trump’s say so.

    If through the legal process it is determined that any of them are here illegally then they can be deported – again through the legal process – not by having ICE Gestapo (the REAL criminals here) unlawfully kidnap then traffic them to concentration camps in human rights violating dictatorships.

    It is beyond shameful and reprehensible how the Trump-MAGA regime are so quickly turning the US into a shithole nation.

    >No **PERSON** shall…be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. ~ The United States Constitution, 5th Amendment

    >*If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary*. ~ Timothy Snyder

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  30. To all the democrat politicians this is what we mean when we say “do something”.

  31. Just donated to Van Hollen. We need to support stuff like this.

  32. The GOP went down there as a photo op.

    Van Hollen went down because a person was in desperate need.

    Just saying.

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