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Happy Friday! What a beautiful spring day it is. 🌷

In today's issue:

• Senate Democrat visits Abrego Garcia
• Salvadoran president mocks Van Hollen
• ICE holds U.S. citizen as ‘unauthorized alien’
• FSU shooting latest

PROGRAMMING NOTE The Hill’s 12:30 Report will not publish next week. We will return April 28. Happy Easter, friends! 🐰

FIRST 100 DAYS

Getting attention — Sen. Van Hollen met with Abrego Garcia:

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) traveled to El Salvador and met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to the Terrorist Confinement Center in El Salvador. 📸 Abrego Garcia and Van Hollen meeting

Keep in mind: Van Hollen had been twice denied the chance to speak with Abrego Garcia, both in person and by phone.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele mocked their meeting. “Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the ‘death camps’ & ‘torture’, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador,” Bukele posted on X, with several photos.

And Trump slammed it too: “Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland looked like a fool yesterday standing in El Salvador begging for attention from the Fake News Media, or anyone,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “GRANDSTANDER!!!”

➤ DO CONSERVATIVES BACK TRUMP ON THIS?:

A small but growing number of conservatives are critical of the Trump administration’s handling of the Abrego Garcia case, especially because the Supreme Court ordered his return and the administration has not complied. Read more in The Washington Post

Why does Trump think Abrego Garcia has gang ties?:

“The Trump administration’s argument that the mistakenly........

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