Justice: US Senator: Discarded migrant now in a different prison

The migrant Kilmar Ábrego García, deported from the United States despite the existing protection status, was moved from the notorious Salvadorian high -security prison in Cecot to another detention center near the city of Santa Ana. This was announced by the democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen, who had met with Ábrego in El Salvador for the first time. Ábrego told him that the conditions were better there, he was no longer with 25 fellow inmates in a cell, but still had no contact with the outside world.

The 29-year-old comes from El Salvador and, according to the US media, had entered the United States around 2011 on the run from gang violence. Although his asylum application was rejected in 2019, he received abdominal protection – with reference to impending political persecution.

Senator speaks of kidnapping

Senator Van Hollen spoke of a kidnapping in the Ábrego case. The government’s lawyer spoke of an administrative error, but this mistake had led to the family man kidnapped by the streets in the state of Maryland and was put into a prison in El Salvador, said the Senator. It is about protecting the constitutional rights of everyone who lives in the United States. “If you refuse a man’s constitutional rights, you threaten the constitutional rights and proper procedures for everyone else in America.”

The Democrat had published a photo of the meeting with Ábrego on the platform X. It shows the two sitting at a table, a few glasses of water and coffee in front of them. Later, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele posted on X: “Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from” Death camps “&” Torture “, now sips Margaritas with Senator van Hollen in the tropical paradise El Salvador!” US President Donald Trump was later asked about the alleged Margaritas.

Senator clarifies “Margarita-Gate”

Van Hollen said he wanted to clarify the “Margarita Gate”. He drank water with the prisoner when a government employee put glasses on the table that looked like they were filled with Margarita. Neither he nor Ábrego had drunk from it. However, the impression was given because the prisoner’s glass was less full. It should look as if he had drunk out of it.

Trump calls Senator “Trottel” and “Important”

Van Hollen had personally traveled to the authoritarian governed El Salvador to work to return to the USA for the return of Ábrego. Van Hollen and other critics accuse the government of overlapping judicial orders. After the meeting, US President Trump described Van Hollen as “Trottel” and “Important”, who in El Salvador wanted to “beg” for the attention of the “fake news”.

Trump’s government is increasingly in trouble because courts consider the man’s deportation to be unlawful. A federal judge ordered the US government to bring back the man. In the meantime, the case ended up in front of the US Supreme Court – since then it has been legally wrested.