Reuters: US Congress members visit El Salvador to facilitate release of deported man

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Reuters - US Congress members visit El Salvador to facilitate release of deported man

By Reuters
April 21, 2025
11:21 AM EDT

April 21 (Reuters) - Four Democratic U.S. representatives arrived in El Salvador on Monday hoping to compel the Trump administration to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man mistakenly deported and now held in a notorious prison in that country.

U.S. Representatives Maxwell Frost of Florida, Robert Garcia of California, Yassamin Ansari of Arizona and Maxine Dexter of Oregon are in El Salvador to facilitate Garcia's return to the United States, they said in a statement.

"Donald Trump and his administration are running a government-funded kidnapping program – illegally arresting, jailing, and deporting innocent people with zero due process," Frost said in the statement.

The U.S. government sent Abrego Garcia, 29, to El Salvador on March 15 despite an order protecting him from deportation to El Salvador. Abrego Garcia left El Salvador at age 16 to escape gang-related violence, his lawyers said. He has never been charged with or convicted of any crime.

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[Scrivener7]

1. Godspeed to anyone who does this. So happy they're doing it. I hope every Dem makes their way

down there and then does a town hall in a red area where they talk about due process.