House Democrats arrive in El Salvador to push for Abrego Garcia's return

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Mychael Schnell, Rebecca Beitsch Updated: Apr 21, 2025 / 04:04 PM CDT

A quartet of House Democrats arrived in El Salvador on Monday morning to push for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to the Central American country.

Democratic Reps. Robert Garcia (Calif.), Maxwell Frost (Fla.), Yassamin Ansari (Ariz.) and Maxine Dexter (Ore.) said they were in El Salvador to advocate for Abrego Garcia’s release and put a spotlight on what they say is President Trump’s noncompliance with a Supreme Court order directing his administration to “facilitate” the Maryland man’s return. They also said they would urge the release of other detainees.

“While Donald Trump continues to defy the Supreme Court, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held illegally in El Salvador after being wrongfully deported,” Garcia said in a statement. “That is why we’re here – to remind the American people that kidnapping immigrants and deporting them without due process is not how we do things in America.”

“We are demanding the Trump Administration abide by the Supreme Court decision and give Kilmar and the other migrants mistakenly sent to El Salvador due process in the United States,” he added.'''

The group noted that their visit was not being paid for with taxpayer dollars, after House Oversight and Government Reform Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) denied a request from Garcia and Frost for the trip to be an official congressional delegation. The House is on recess this week and returns to Washington next Monday.....................


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