April 16th, 2025.

In El Salvador today, authorities denied Senator Chris Van Hollen,

a Democrat of Maryland, a meeting or a phone call with Kilmar Abrago-Garcia,

the man the Trump regime sent by administrative error

to the terrorist prison, Seacott.

Abrago Garcia is Van Hollen's constituent,

and the senator promised his family

to try to get him released.

That Salvadoran officials cannot or will not produce him raises concerns about his well-being.

Senator Van Hollen had hoped to meet with El Salvador's president, Naïbe Bukali,

but met instead with Vice President Felix Uyowa.

Uyoha at first told Van Hollen there had not been enough time to arrange a meeting with Abrago Garcia.

But when the senator offered to come back next week,

Uyoha allowed as how a meeting might not be possible at all.

Van Hollen reported that when he asked Uyah,

why El Salvador was continuing to imprison Abrago Garcia

when it had no evidence that he was a gang member,

Uyowa answered that the Trump administration is paying El Salvador to hold him.

Evidently, President Donald Trump thinks what he is doing to Abrago Garcia and the optics of

Seacott play well to his base.

Jordane Carney and Nicholas Wu of Politico reported today that the White House has

heavily encouraged Republican lawmakers to lean into the idea of Abrago Garcia, who has no

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