WASHINGTON – Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen claimed on Friday the El Salvador government had set up a disagreeable photo shoot with accused MS-13 soldier Kilmer Abrego Garcia by planting margarita cocktail glasses before the pair when they met at Van Hollen’s hotel the day before.
Van Hollen (D-MD.) – landed at Dulles International Airport after a three-day trip to the Central American country trying to win the release of Abrego Garcia – Salvadra officials made it seem like the exiled migrants live in luxury rather than fearing his life in gang prison.
“They made a bit of a mistake,” Van Hollen said. “Whether it’s salt or sugar, sucking out any of those glasses and it disappears.
“You’ll see a gap. There’s no gap. No one has ever drank a margarita for sugar water or anything.”
El Salvador President Naive Buquel has worked with the Trump administration by accepting suspected gang members in the infamous Cecot Megaprison, but he laughed at Van Hollen’s visit in X.
“Kilmer Abrego Garcia miraculously rises from “death camp” and “torture” and sipping on Senator Van Hollen and Margarita in El Salvador’s tropical paradise. ” Bukel wrote on Thursday.
“This is a lengthy lesson that President Bukel does to deceive people what is going on,” Van Hollen said Friday.
Van Hollen claimed that El Salvador Vice President Felix Ullore was allowed to meet “suddenly” with Abrego Garcia after he declined his first request on Wednesday. The senator then tried to drive himself to the cecot on Thursday, but was drawn to the soldiers and turned away. A few hours later, Abrego Garcia was brought to Van Hollen’s San Salvador hotel, he said.
The senator also alleged that Salvador officials had requested that the meeting be held in the lounge area near the hotel’s pool.
Democrats and Liberals gathered in the cause of Abrego Garcia after the Justice Department said in a courthouse on March 31 that his removal from the US was due to “administrative errors.”
The Trump administration dismissed the statement, claiming that Abrego Garcia has no right to be in the US and is a member of the MS-13’s good position, citing information from law enforcement sources and details of a March 2019 arrest by local police in Hyattville, Maryland.
“When Kilmer Abrego Garcia was first arrested, he was wearing a sweatshirt with a roll of money covering the president’s ears, mouths and eyes in various monetary denominations,” White House Press Officer Carolyn Leavitt said Wednesday. “This is the symbol of the known MS-13 gang: “Listen to evil, don’t speak evil, don’t see evil, don’t see evil.” ”
In October 2019, an immigration judge banned the removal of Abrego Garcia, and his claims of asylum were taken into account, claiming he feared gang violence. However, he was denied the bond in two separate rulings the same year, one of which cited evidence that he was an MS-13 member.
President Trump said this week that it would be up to El Salvador to decide the fate of Abrego Garcia, as he is not a US citizen.
