Will Abrego-Garcia Ever See the Light of Day Again: A Discussion with Sen. Chris Van Hollen

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Harry talks with Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, who has been at the forefront of the efforts to keep attention on the nightmarish treatment of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia. Abrego-Garcia was pulled from the car he was driving and next thing he knew was in a notorious prison in El Salvador, the very place that a judge had ruled he could not be sent because of the risk of persecution. Senator Van Hollen went to El Salvador to meet with Abrego-Garcia. Abrego-Garcia has had no other communication with the outside world before or since. Senator Van Hollen discusses his reasons for going to El Salvador, previously undisclosed details of his meeting with Abrego-Garcia, the state of the war of public opinion about the case and Abrego-Garcia’s fate, and the prospects for Abrego-Garcia’s eventual return to his home and family in the United States. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Talking Fed's One-on-One,
0:09.2	deep-dive discussions with national figures
0:12.3	about the most fascinating and consequential issues
0:16.3	defining our culture and shaping our lives.
0:19.8	I'm your host, Harry Littman. Welcome to another
0:23.5	talking feds one-on-one. If the administration had its way, Kilmore Ibrego-Garcia,
0:30.7	the man shipped down to a torturous prison in Al Salvador by mistake, would already have become
0:37.4	a forgotten man.
0:39.1	From the time nearly two months ago of their grievous error,
0:42.5	the administration has trotted out really all manner of excuses to make the American people
0:49.7	forget about this boo-boo.
0:52.2	They said actually it wasn't a mistake, though three lawyers
0:56.6	told the court otherwise, or he really is a terrible gangbanger, so no harm, no foul,
1:03.2	or there's nothing to be done, so it's all out to El Salvador, or that even to discuss
1:10.3	what happened with a court would trample
1:12.5	on grave foreign policy secrets, and that Abrago Garcia is not forgotten, and that he remains
1:20.1	front and center in the public consciousness, is the doing of one person more than any, and that
1:26.4	is Senator Chris Van Hollen.
1:29.1	Senator Van Hollen has served as the U.S. Center from Maryland since 2016.
1:34.1	He's on the Foreign Relations Committee, among others.
1:38.0	Previously, he represented Maryland's eighth congressional district in the House,
1:43.1	starting in 2002, and during his time there,
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