(21 Apr 2025)
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San Salvador, El Salvador – 21 April 2025
1. Various of Democratic lawmakers heading to the news briefing
2. Frost talking to the press
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Maxwell Frost, Democratic Rep. of Florida:
“We’re here to build off of the work of Senator Van Hollen, who heroically came down here and showed his (Abrego Garcia’s) family and the world for the first time since he was taken down here that he is alive, that he was alive, and he was well at that time, and so what we want to know is where is he at now? What is his condition now?”
4. Various of Chris Newman, Abrego Garcia’s lawyer, talking to the press
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Newman, Abrego Garcia’s lawyer:
“I came here with three distinct goals in mind. Number one, to ensure that Mr. Abrego Garcia is in fact alive today. Number two, to make sure that he is healthy and safe. And then number three, to insure that he has access to counsel and to his family as is required by international law. We know nothing of Mr. Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts since the staged photo op on Thursday with Senator Van Hollen. We demand to immediately know where he is and to have access to him."
6. Newman talking to the press
STORYLINE:
Four House Democrats have traveled to El Salvador to draw attention to the plight of a man the Trump administration deported to a Salvadoran prison and has refused to help return — even after the Supreme Court ruled that it was the government’s duty to do so.
Reps. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, Maxine Dexter of Oregon, Maxwell Frost of Florida and Robert Garcia of California arrived Sunday in the Central American nation to investigate the condition of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who had lived in the United States for more than a decade.
The Trump administration deported him, a move that administration officials have said in court filings was done in error.
But despite a Supreme Court ruling that ordered the Trump administration to help facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return, the administration has said it has no power to bring him back, a position being scrutinized by federal courts as potentially in violation of judicial rulings.
In a news conference Monday in El Salvador’s capital, the Democratic representatives and Abrego Garcia’s lawyer said they were in El Salvador “demanding his safe return home."
The group said they hoped to continue to pressure authorities for his release, and that their petition to meet with Abrego Garcia was denied.
The quartet’s trip comes after Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland traveled to El Salvador last week and met with Abrego Garcia and Salvadoran officials.
Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland with his wife and three children, who are American citizens, before he was deported on March 15.
Abrego Garcia’s protected legal status prohibited him from being deported to El Salvador. He was deported on one of three planes filled with migrants accused of being gang members.
Frost said the four representatives were in El Salvador to “build off the work” of Van Hollen and that they were inquiring about where Abrego Garcia was being held and under what conditions.
Chris Newman, a lawyer representing the deportee, added that his primary concerns was Abrego Garcia’s access to counsel.
“We know nothing of Mr. Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts since the staged photo op on Thursday with Senator Van Hollen,” Newman said.
"We demand to immediately know where he is and to have access to him."
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