Protesters outside the Maryland District District Court at the Greenbelt Rally on April 4, 2025, supported Maryland father Kilmer Armando Abrego Garcia, who was deported to El Salvador for “administrative errors,” and called for him to return to the United States (pictured by photo)

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Wednesday that he was denied a meeting with Kilmer Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident born in El Salvador, Maryland, who was mistakenly deported to a home prison in his home country, notoriously for human rights abuse.

Maryland Democrats met with El Salvador Vice President Felix Ullore in the Central American country to help Abrego Garcia return to the United States. Abrego Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador, but in 2019, a US immigration judge found him in serious danger if he sent him back to his home country.

After meeting with Ulloa, Van Hollen explained to reporters about the visit, saying that Salvadra’s vice president had rejected a request for contact with Abrego Garcia.

“I asked the vice president if he could meet Abrego Garcia, and he said, ‘Well, you need to make an earlier clause to visit Secotte (Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo),'” Van Hollen told reporters for El Salvador. Mega Prison.

“I said, ‘I’m not interested, at this point, I just want to meet Abrego Garcia to join CECOT’s tour,” Van Hollen said.

“He said he couldn’t make it happen. He said he needed a little more time. I asked if I could meet Abrego Garcia next week and if I was back.

Van Hollen also said he was denied a call or video call with Abrego Garcia. Please report that information to his family.

The senator said he would contact the US embassy in El Salvador and request that he ask the Salvador government to connect them via telephone, following suggestions from Ulloa.

Van Hollen’s visit came the next day Maryland federal judge He ordered the Trump administration to provide evidence of his attempt to support Abrego Garcia’s release from CECOT.

US Supreme Court Last week, the Trump administration decided that it had to “promote” him, but that he didn’t need it if he returned to the US. President El Salvador Nayib Bukele He also said Monday he would not bring Abrego Garcia back to the US.

The Trump administration has confirmed in court that Abrego Garcia was deported for “administrative errors.”

The administration accused him of being a member of Gang MS-13. He has not been charged or convicted of any crime, including gang-related crimes.

Van Hollen said the Trump administration “illegally accused Abrego Garcia” and that he ousted the man who was accidentally deported from prison and returned to Maryland, predicting others would follow.

“I can assure the Vice President, the President, that I might be the first US senator to visit El Salvador on this issue, but there will be more and more and more members of Congress,” he said.

The administration will respond

Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security posted Social Media On Wednesday, a copy of the restraining orders Abrego Garcia’s wife asked him against in 2021 was “claiming that he punched, scratched and tore her shirt.

In response, Jennifer Vasquez Sula, wife of Abrego Garcia; He told Newsweek She had a disagreement with him, but things did not escalate and continued the civil court process.

Later Wednesday afternoon, White House spokesperson Caroline Leavitt issued a statement about the incident, stating that Abrego Garcia was a member of the gang and opposed media references to him as “the father of Maryland.”

“Maryland’s father is not there,” she said.

Patty Morin, the mother of a Maryland woman, was killed by Salvadra immigrants from a country with no legal status, but appeared at a briefing and supported the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation action.