Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) was pressed on the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador, during a heated exchange at a town hall he held on Tuesday.

Grassley discussed numerous topics during the Iowa event, including farmers, tariffs and congressional Republicans’ planned reconciliation bill that would seek to cut spending, extend President Trump’s tax cuts and provide money for border security, among other initiatives. But he participated in a particularly tense back-and-forth when discussing the case of Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national.

“Are you going to bring that guy back from El Salvador?” one man asked Grassley, eliciting applause from others in attendance.

“Why not?” he followed up after the Iowa senator said he wouldn’t.

Abrego Garcia has received national attention after the Trump administration acknowledged

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