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🗓️ 17 April 2025
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0:00.0 | Yesterday, Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen flew to El Salvador to try to bring a prisoner back to the United States. |
0:08.6 | The prisoner, Kilmar Abrago Garcia, was deported by the Trump administration after two judges affirmed that he was a member of the notorious gang MS-13. |
0:19.3 | Here is what Senator Van Hollen had to say from El Salvador. |
0:23.4 | I also told his wife and family that I would try to meet with Mr. Abrago-Garcia while I was here. |
0:33.3 | So I asked the vice president if I could meet with Mr. Abrago-Garcio. |
0:38.3 | And he said, well, you need to make earlier provisions to go visit Seacott. |
0:47.3 | I said I'm not interested at this moment in taking a tour of Seacott. |
0:52.3 | I just want to meet with Mr. Abrago-Garcia. |
0:55.0 | He said he was not able to make that happen. |
0:59.0 | I asked, he said he needed a little more time. |
1:02.0 | I asked him if I came back next week whether I'd be able to see Mr. Abrago-Garcia. |
1:06.0 | He said he couldn't promise that either. |
1:08.0 | So I asked him if I could get on the phone, either video phone or just a phone, and talk to Mr. Abrago Garcia. |
1:15.8 | So I could just ask him how he's doing so I could report back to his family. |
1:21.1 | He said he could not arrange that. He said maybe if the American embassy were to ask, maybe that could happen. |
1:29.1 | We have an unjust situation here. |
1:34.0 | I just want to talk to him. |
1:35.6 | I just want to talk to the guy that two judges said is a member of MS-13. |
1:39.6 | I just want to, why won't you let me even just get on the phone with him? |
1:43.5 | Unjust? |
1:54.1 | We have an unjust situation. Some of Garcia's defenders are claiming that he was not a member of MS-13. |
2:04.0 | They're claiming that the judge's affirmations that he was were based on unproven evidence, that Garcia was only coincidentally arrested wearing MS-13 clothing, that he only coincidentally had rolls of |
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