Sen. Chris Van Hollen meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia
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🗓️ 18 April 2025
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen met Thursday with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. But the wrongly deported Maryland man remains in custody.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Friday, April 18th, 2025. This is the excerpt. |
| 0:15.1 | Today, Senator Chris Van Hollen has met with Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia in El Salvador. Plus, we have the |
| 0:20.7 | latest from a shooting at Florida State University. |
| 0:23.4 | And the Supreme Court will weigh in on Trump's plans to restrict birthright citizenship. |
| 0:29.6 | Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen said he has met with Kilmar Abrago-Garcia, |
| 0:33.9 | the Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month. |
| 0:37.1 | The senator posted on X an image of himself in El Salvador with Abrago Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month. The senator posted on |
| 0:38.2 | X an image of himself in El Salvador with Abrago Garcia, dressed in a collared shirt, jeans, and a |
| 0:43.4 | baseball cap. The meeting came a day after the senator was denied access to the notorious prison |
| 0:48.1 | for gang members where he has been held. Moments before the lawmaker posted a message and image, |
| 0:53.3 | Salvador and President Naibu Kelle posted three additional photos from the meeting. |
| 0:57.0 | He quipped that the two were sharing a margarita. |
| 1:00.0 | The meeting appeared to occur at the hotel Van Hollen had been staying at in San Salvador. |
| 1:04.0 | Van Hollen's office declined to release additional information and indicated the senator would hold a news briefing later today. Habregor Garcia's wife, Jennifer Vasquez Surah, said she only knew where her husband had been taken based on news photos of men with their heads down being led through the notorious Seacott prison. |
| 1:20.6 | She recognized her husband's scars and tattoos. |
| 1:23.6 | She said in a statement to USA Today after the senator's meeting that the efforts of her family and |
| 1:28.5 | community in fighting for justice are being heard. Earlier in the day, I had spoken with our own |
| 1:33.4 | national correspondent, Will Carlos, who was in El Salvador following the senator's motorcade |
| 1:38.1 | when it was stopped by armed guards at a military checkpoint, less than two miles from the prison. |
| 1:43.6 | The checkpoint appeared to be set up specifically to keep him from reaching the prison. |
| 1:47.9 | Despite the senator eventually being allowed to meet with Abrago Garcia, |
| 1:51.2 | he remains in Salvador in custody as of early this morning. |
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