Maryland lawmaker plans El Salvador trip to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia
A lawmaker is organizing a third trip to El Salvador to see the mistakenly deported man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, as Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) heads to the Central American nation with the hopes of visiting his constituent.
Ivey is pushing to meet not just with Abrego Garcia but others he says are being wrongly imprisoned in the country without any judicial review.
“We want to go to see if we can move this thing forward, trying to get Kilmar back, trying to get the Trump administration to comply with the Supreme Court order,” Ivey said during an interview with The Hill.
The high court determined that the Trump administration must “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return. But the White House has not done so, arguing the order means they need to send a plane should the government of El Salvador seek to return him. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has said he will not.
“The administration still hasn't complied, and we got to keep the pressure on,” Ivey said.
Ivey is pushing to meet not just with Abrego Garcia, who has since........
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