He is leadership we have been needing. Someone who gets it done. Puts his money where his mouth is. Way to go Sen Van Hollen. Thank you Sir. Now we need to get him home for due process. It’s up to the judge now.
YES, Donald Trump has publicly stated that he wants to send U.S. citizens to prisons in El Salvador, telling President Nayib Bukele to build “about five more” facilities to house these “homegrown” criminals.
NO, sending U.S. citizens to prisons in El Salvador would not be legal.
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Few others prefer to play ping pong and many others are scared and shitting their pants. Van Holden, Bernie and AOC are keeping up the fight. Wish all others joined them
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Yes there were photos posted. Of course El Salvador took him out of his prison clothes and had him wear a hat to cover up the buzz they gave him. They were also there for all conversations the 2 had. Trying to downplay any mistreatment he might have received.
Well, how nice to know that there’s someone in the Senate not cowering to the orange twat waffle. It is a Democrat of course!!!— kudos to Senator Van Hollen- he got the job done – now let’s bring this husband, father and taxpayer home where he belongs
Everyone the US sent to El Salvador must be brought back. If they're accused of a crime they need to have a fair trial. If found guilty they can serve their time here. If all they're guilty of is being here illegally they can be deported to their country of origin.
Trump is Making America the Greatest FAILED Democracy. He plans to have it killed completely well before the midterms. Unless we the people stand up against his ruthlessness our great country will fall to tyranny and will never see a free and fair election in his lifetime.
I feel no better at all. I also wonder why they dressed him up and took him to a motel instead of allowing the senator into the prison for pics of what it is really like.
And gratefully tonight, we have proof of life thanks to Sen. Van Hollen. And perhaps other Dems will arrange trips to face El Salvador and Trump in rotation teams to keep the names and faces of all the others imprisoned without due process on the daily news.
Yeah so yay Senator for taking a trip and doing a photo op? Meanwhile Garcia is STILL UNLAWFULLY IMPRISONED in another country. Now the pressure is off because oh he's alive and a Senator had a photo op? Why are people falling for this?
Time for US citizens to boycott travel to El Salvador. US travelers account for nearly 40% of their tourists. They cannot be a fun surfer destination and hold innocent people in their death camp.
And this was the White House’s response: they are officially thumbing their nose at both the lower court and a 9-0 Supreme Court order. Our country is completely off the rails, the separation of powers has failed.
In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune.
DJT's claim, his staff did this. In civil court that's called negligent supervision. Plus, he wrote a $5 million
contract without an Errors and Omissions clause.
Can't get someone back we sent in error? DJT evidently wrote the contract himself without legal counsel. Probably in all caps.
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To recsp. Sen. Van Hollen wrote to President Bukele, asked for meeting while Bukele was in DC. Then Sen. Van Hollen said he would go to El Salvador. He went. He was denied a meeting with Abrego Garcia. Van Hollen remained, spoke to the press. Bukele set up meeting. Off site.
Looks like they just dressed him up and made it look like everything is fine and dandy. It's very weird that the senator, after everything he did, allowed himself to be used as a prop.
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Look at the previous comments in this thread. There are photos and the breaking news was covered on MSNBC tonight by both Rachel and Lawrence with many photos.
I was just saying that the proof you were asking for was posted in earlier comments. I had just logged in myself after seeing the coverage on MSNBC and was scrolling through the comments for more details.
I’m so happy to know that Mr Garcia is still alive and talking. I wasn’t so sure that would be the case, considering he’s in a torture prison in El Salvador.
Doesn’t this seem staged to make the public feel ok? The ball cap, the casual button down shirt, the cafeteria-like setting: we know this isn’t at all what his daily life actually looks like in prison. He is not on vacation: he’s serving a life sentence in the most dangerous prison in the world.
100% they even gave him a nice clean shave
of course they're gonna do that if they allow a photo but we wanted to see him alive and he is.
Its just step one
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American Senators are very powerful. Think how just a few GOP senators could stop all the damage Trump, christian fascists & tech lunatics are doing to our country. They have surrendered their constitutional powers to Trump & must one day be held accountable. Cowards and traitors.
I am pretty sure the massive outrage shined a very bright spotlight on this situation with the whole world watching, and also someone likely informed Bukele there's quite the economic pain that can be inflicted with sanctions.
It wasn't easy, apparently. The Senator had a legal argument prepared, which was that it was a violation of international law (that El Salvador signed) to not allow a prisoner to meet with their legal counsel. The Sen. took Kilmar's lawyer with him.
There’s a little known govt agency, Personnel Recovery Agency, whose charge is to recover American POWs, detainees, & hostages. Yes there is a difference in status between all 3 and requires a different approach to securing an individuals freedom, but all include a whole if govt. approach.
By international law Kilmar & others denied due process & currently held in CECOTE are detainees, hence the right to counsel approach. I’m sure the Senator was briefed by folks at PRA who are not loyal to the Trump regime. It’s an amazing agency I had the pleasure to be part of in my mil career.
That’s exactly why we need to keep demanding and fighting for his return to his family- don’t let the puppet show distract us from the fact that there is real work that still needs to be done. Giving up hope of real progress isn’t an option either.
That's my senator!! I called last week and left a message of support and exhortation. Please be active in the political process folks!! it inspires our elected leaders to act, and gives them political cover to do these "stunts", which clearly have more effect than you might think!!
He is an El Salvador citizen. He is home where he belongs end of story. He was a criminal illegal in the US. It’s a crime to come across the border illegally.
And the appeals court have told the administration again to get their shit together and get him home. Keep protesting it is working and we need to keep eroding his power in the small chips and chunks when we can!!!
This is obscene. That the President would use a doctored photo to argue a man should be denied due process — and left in an El Salvador prison for the remainder of his life — is so beyond the bounds of decency.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Scared of Retaliation; how can she do her job if she's too scared to open her mouth; which is what she is supposed to be doing or voting on something or talking to her constituents about what they want from her; "she should resign if she's too scared to do her job"!
Senator Van Hollen is not a hero, but not because he didn't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home. He's doing his job, maybe going a step beyond, and upholding a promise he made. This is what we elect our congressional representatives to do, to protect us, keep us safe, etc. We've just forgotten.
Van Hollen has forced the Administration’s hand. If he could get to Abrego Garcia, the Trump Admin clearly can. The Supreme Court has ordered the Administration to effectuate his release, we now know they can. It’s just if they care about the constitution at all if they will.
1/2 Difficult, yes. But not impossible. Pressure does work. That’s why now is the time to get louder. It really is up to us
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Sorry, is this true? Earlier reports were that he was blocked. Can you link to any video or anything from the Senator to confirm? We live in an age of the need to verify. I love your feed, but need to confirm.
ty. I came late to the game and primarily via social media. I trust alt nat parks so rather than contest I asked. Found what I needed and all was good. I appreciate everyone who shared other sources too.
We need to triangulate truth because lies spread everywhere all the time.
Truth is hard to get, indeed. I've used BBC for my news since I came back from the peace corps and couldn't get any international news from American sources.
Thx. This is what created initial skepticism. Apologies to those who spread the word second-hand, but we live in the age of disinfo, so I needed original sources. I love the alt Nat Parks crew. So Amazeballs.
Maybe getting the pic will put more pressure on Trump to follow orders. We’ve seen him, we know he’s alive, we know if Trump picked up the phone and asked El Salvador would release him
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/politics/senator-chris-van-hollen-el-salvador-prison.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ak8.0dh-.18omR5bV1hmN&smid=url-share
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/17/van-hollen-visit-kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-00298258
NO, sending U.S. citizens to prisons in El Salvador would not be legal.
Even in "good" times, the US systematically puts (especially PoC) people into private prisons to exploit them for modern slave labor.
It's a lot of work to do for progressive forces on the US.
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I’m sure he’d much rather just be home with his family.
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Fantastic news.
Now we need a crack team to go in and free him.
Screw both governments
Wish they were real. They are definitely needed.
contract without an Errors and Omissions clause.
Can't get someone back we sent in error? DJT evidently wrote the contract himself without legal counsel. Probably in all caps.
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of course they're gonna do that if they allow a photo but we wanted to see him alive and he is.
Its just step one
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Because then she’ll get sued for defamation
Absurdity.
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Kilmar Garcia SHOULD be allowed to sue Trump.
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I guess what America really needs to know is does even 4% of the Republican senators & representatives in congress give a fuck about the Constitution.
If not, it is going to be extremely difficult to save our country.
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We need to triangulate truth because lies spread everywhere all the time.
This is actually great. I thought for sure Kilmar was dead.
He needs to come home, but I will take this (small?) win.
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