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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: Senator Chris Van Hollen says he met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia tonight [View all]
radical noodle
(10,482 posts)54. The NY Times says he was turned away
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/politics/senator-chris-van-hollen-el-salvador-prison.html
I wonder what is really true? (although I think seeing Garcia in a baseball cap and plaid shirt might be questionable under the circumstances)
About a mile and a half from a maximum-security Salvadoran prison on Thursday, Senator Chris Van Hollen’s caravan was brought to an abrupt halt by a military roadblock.
Mr. Van Hollen and Chris Newman, a lawyer representing Mr. Abrego Garcia’s family, were denied their request to visit the prison, known as CECOT, and forced to turn back. The refusal of entry came a day after El Salvador’s vice president rejected Mr. Van Hollen’s formal appeal for a meeting or even a phone call with Mr. Abrego Garcia.
“Our purpose today was very straightforward,” Mr. Van Hollen said in an interview on Thursday. “It was simply to be able to go see if Kilmar Abrego Garcia is doing OK. I mean, nobody has heard anything about his condition since he was illegally abducted from the United States. He is totally beyond reach.”
“Our purpose today was very straightforward,” Mr. Van Hollen said in an interview on Thursday. “It was simply to be able to go see if Kilmar Abrego Garcia is doing OK. I mean, nobody has heard anything about his condition since he was illegally abducted from the United States. He is totally beyond reach.”
“This was a very sort of simple humanitarian request,” Mr. Van Hollen said soon after the stop. “They said they were ordered not to allow us to proceed any further.”
I wonder what is really true? (although I think seeing Garcia in a baseball cap and plaid shirt might be questionable under the circumstances)
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BREAKING: Senator Chris Van Hollen says he met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia tonight [View all]
In It to Win It
Apr 2025
OP
Now that Garcia's profile has been raised with all this publicity and the work of Sen. Van Hollen,...
magicarpet
Apr 2025
#31
I'm doing ok, although, thanks to Been A Dick Donald, I'm paying more, not less like he promised,
MarineCombatEngineer
Apr 2025
#131
Well then, I'll take you up on the offer of food, but not filling up both of my 150 gal. fuel tanks,
MarineCombatEngineer
Apr 2025
#134
I get the sense that Been A Dick Donald and his criminal cabal have now stepped over the line
MarineCombatEngineer
Apr 2025
#135
No knowledge? I would normally agree that he's clueless but in this case I'll call BS.
Dave Bowman
Apr 2025
#47
Holy crackers! Wow. Not over, but he's alive And well enough to be sitting at a table
electric_blue68
Apr 2025
#8
That table looks like it's in a nice lunchroom. Surely that isn't at the notorious prison?!
LauraInLA
Apr 2025
#109
did they let him out of the prison for this? That picture surely didn't come from the prison.
Takket
Apr 2025
#22
lol, because the same fucking MAGA fascists paying them to illegally detain these people are the same...
W_HAMILTON
Apr 2025
#59
As to #2 - it's too early to know for this administration - BUT he deported around 70 in his prior administration.
Ms. Toad
Apr 2025
#88
The reason people worry is because they listen to too many people in this world
WarGamer
Apr 2025
#56
Any more names of wrongly imprisoned. I'd like to mention when I make calls ie comment twenty.
cbabe
Apr 2025
#67
I hear some Putinite trashbags are saying that even wondering about whether he was dead
Prairie Gates
Apr 2025
#85