Kilmar Ábrego García ‘traumatized’ by threats in prison, Maryland senator says
Chris Van Hollen describes meeting with constituent held in Salvadoran prison against supreme court order
Wrongly deported Salvadoran man Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been held incommunicado and faced threats in prison that left him traumatized", a Democratic senator said Friday after returning from meeting him in El Salvador.
Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the state Abrego Garcia had been living in with his US citizen wife and son until he was deported last month in what the Trump administration conceded was an administrative error", traveled to the central American country this week to see his constituent. After initially rejecting his request to meet Abrego Garcia and preventing him from traveling to the prison where he was being held, president Nayib Bukele's government on Thursday facilitated a meeting at Van Hollen's hotel.
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