Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is demanding a meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele over the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and says he’ll go to El Salvador himself if the Marylander isn’t returned.
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I appreciate this, but what I think is lost is that 75% of these men have absolutely NO criminal history, and 22% have nonviolent offenses. They ALL need to come back. This is another amendment he has violated, cruel and unusual punishment even if they are guilty of something.
Mr. Garcia is plug in the dike, once he's released, the others will trickle, then flood out. Donald's sycophants know this & this is why they are fighting so hard.
I don’t think he is still alive. I would be shocked if any of them were. I hope I’m wrong though…if we can get them back. Otherwise death might be better than remaining alive there.
Dem reps and senators . You all have a budget for staff. Temporarily cut .5 FTE, pool your money, hire a private investigating firm , send them to El Salvador to get Kilmar Garcia. Ready. Set. Go !
Sorry but this reminds me of Congressman Ryan that went Guyana to speak with Jim Jones about allowing people to leave his cult. Congressman Ryan was shot and killed on the airfield while trying to leave Guyana. Senator Van Hollen please stay home.
If the El Salvador government is excepting hundreds of prisoners from the USA what's in it for them. I wonder if all the prisoners are really from El Salvador. Hispanics come from many different countries.
Trump, Bondi, etal have violated the constitution by giving the middle finger to SCOTUS. The founders gave YOU, the congress, impeachment and conviction/removal as a remedy. I know Republicans probably will violate their oath but dems in congress must file articles of impeachment.It's 1789 Time.
“If you’re wondering why El Salvador, considering we got our own for profit prison bros over here who would jump at the chance to get the gig, what CECOT has going for it is unchecked brutality.”
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and convicted felon Trump himself should have been arrested for conspiring to kidnap American citizens right there in the White House.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen better take partners and a trusted security detail with him if he goes to El Salvador.
They should return the 75% who had no criminal charges against them. This is disgusting taking people off the streets, going into public schools - shameful. They should return all. They are heinous men repeating history
He has no decency. He has no shame. He has total immunity. HOWEVER, all of the henchmen & women around him, including Republicans in Congress do NOT have immunity! We need to hold all of them accountable!
Donald Trump is such a big con that he manipulated the Supreme Court to give him full reign as President so he wouldn't be held responsible, even for criminal acts whilst he remained President.
Methinks Obama, Biden, Bush , Pence, Harris , UN reps & ICC judges should all go down there. Along with Starmer of the UK & just for more fun, Amal Clooney. Amal is a civil rights attorney & So is PM Starmer. Am sure he will hand over all 260 men, without a fight! 😌
We should be hearing ALL dem governors, senators and congresspeople screaming for this man’s return. Gavin??? Too busy with having alt scum on your podcast?
That's the only way. A Congressional fact finding tour...
Dollar to a dime Bukele will say no... not able to guarantee their safety. Won't want to happen like what happened to LeoRyan's congressional delegation to Guyana in 1978.
Yay! We need our elected Democrats to make regular human rights-based fact-finding trips to El Salvador if there’s any hope of stopping the Trump Holocaust.
Sen. Van Hollen is doing the only thing that can be done at this point, given the court's inability to hold the gov't accountable. I fear, however, that (a) his plane won't be allowed to leave the U.S., or (b) it won't be allowed to land in El Salvador.
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"Yes, and how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?" - Bob Dylan
Thank you!! They can afford the trip. Come back with him and the other people dragged illegally to that hellhole and maybe we'll donate. Do. Your Jobs!
And dozens of reporters, too. In fact, I thought the ABC 'visit' to that prison last week was shameful, no point to it, no new info. 1 minute of nothingness.
Agree! I contacted both @fetterman.senate.gov today & Sen Dave McCormick's office today because they are both PA Senators and Mr Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to everyone, regardless of party!
Because most Dems in power don't actually disagree, as seen by all the votes in favor of the nominations and continued funding of the genocide. Even Booker signed on after his 25hr performance
I was not saying, who cares about Abrego Garcia, I was saying who cares about votes in Congress being missed if all were to travel to El Salvador. If you look at my posts, I’ve done dozens today regarding Abrego Garcia.
Let’s exhort all of our senators to do exactly the same and pile on pressure if they refuse.
Mine is not a partisan position; I am for due process regardless of political affiliation and terrified for for the young people in danger of living without.
Or still blathering about inflation not going down, or the shock to Wall St. caused by Trump’s tariff BS.
Not that those things aren’t important, but proportionality is important now! What’s happening to immigrants & students here on visas is horrific and worse for rule of law than tariff hijinks
“Trmp admits he’s the Beta in the relationship with El Salvador. We used to be more powerful than El Salvador. Biden could get an American resident back with a phone call —but Trmp is too weak, old, and feeble.” That should be the message, nonstop.
He needs Secret Service protection if he is going to this hostile environment. We don’t need another Jonestown-like slaughter of elected representatives, their staff, and media.
Governor Van Hollen better make sure that his Kidnap and Ransom insurance policy is paid up and in force before he goes to El Salvador. He needs to remember, the president of that country is a “cool” dictator. I see nothing good about this idea!
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Maybe another Senator can pen an open letter like Tom Cotton did when Obama was president, stating that in a new Democratic administration not only will this agreement be abrogated, bit Bukele himself may be liable to civil and criminal penalties for holding innocent people against their will.
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This is a seriously important question. Why ARE they doing this? Because they want to hide that he's dead? Because it makes it easier to not send back others? Because it distracts us from other crimes? Or they're okay with torturing an innocent person just to avoid admitting a mistake?
Good! I'm glad to hear it, and a little bit sorry (not really, he needed to hear it) about my emails and calls and @s toward him, at least today about that, since he's doing something. Thank you for letting me know. Every one of our elected representatives should be doing the same thing.
Concentration Camps, unlike prisons, were independent of any judicial review. These persons were incarcerated for indefinite amounts of time. To eliminate individuals and small, targeted groups of individuals by murder, away from the public and judicial review. KILMAR is in a Concentration camp.
If Trump doesn’t achieve his lifelong dream of becoming dictator and forever president of America, what is Bukele’s plan for when a democratic president asks for the prisoners’ return?
Bukele seems dead set to go Trump's route for monetary rewards in cruelty zone that Trump can hang over the heads of anyone he cares to destroy.
I support Van Hollen's humanitarian motive to meet ES Dictator to at least determine is Abrego Garcia is still alive for the sake of his wife+3 children.
Senator Van Hollen needs to tell Bukele that someday Trump will be gone and a Democratic president will not take no for an answer. Return our people when we ask or else. As Trump would say, WE hold all the cards.
agree but they don't even need to wait: congress controls the purse...well,normally.
democrats should have a bill written to immediately and indefinitely halt all US funds going to El Salvador.
republicans can reject, but it will squarely put US citizens sent there on their backs.
Until Republicans are in serious danger of losing their seats in Congress, nothing like that is likely to pass. Don't forget, many Americans (maybe millions) don't care if these people are sent to El Salvador. It's what they voted for.
If Trump refuses to leave, there won't really be a country anymore. That would escalate the resistance to new unimaginable levels with the result likely being the dissolution of the U.S. into 50 nation states.
Senator before you go, please remember what happened at Jonestown and protect yourself, because Trump won't. I am not making a threat I am hoping he stays safe.
Realistically, he's not going to get very far by talking to this guy. I think El Salvador kidnapping a United States Senator would be a bigger message than anything he could say.
It's coming anyway. I'm considering the wisdom of trying to organize a 'safe house' near the prison, where media and lawyers can stay. That will take a little prep work.
@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov Will you speak up? Your silence in recent days is deafening. You should be SHOUTING about the so called SAVE act and the illegal kidnappings and deportations. @indivisible-ukiah.bsky.social @indysoco.bsky.social
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If the El Salvador government is excepting hundreds of prisoners from the USA what's in it for them. I wonder if all the prisoners are really from El Salvador. Hispanics come from many different countries.
"criminals".
This is a fight they need to lose badly.
Bukele > Trump ?
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen better take partners and a trusted security detail with him if he goes to El Salvador.
Dollar to a dime Bukele will say no... not able to guarantee their safety. Won't want to happen like what happened to LeoRyan's congressional delegation to Guyana in 1978.
I bet they will have a convoy of some nato friends
Thank you. Also more Democrats should join you!
Why isn’t my Senator/Representative calling to impeach?
They all swore to defend the Constitution.
When the president tramples democracy like a Nazi thug, our representative’s first job is to call to impeach.
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Way to go, land of the free…
Won't achieve anything.
Why don’t you just be happy that he’s trying to do something.🙄
"Yes, and how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?" - Bob Dylan
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This isn't a time to be passive
Pretty disappointed that democrats aren’t making a bigger fuss. Stop being nice. It is time to play dirty like them.
We just need big, broad measures from lawmakers right now who seem to be completely uninterested in doing so
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Let’s exhort all of our senators to do exactly the same and pile on pressure if they refuse.
Mine is not a partisan position; I am for due process regardless of political affiliation and terrified for for the young people in danger of living without.
Not that those things aren’t important, but proportionality is important now! What’s happening to immigrants & students here on visas is horrific and worse for rule of law than tariff hijinks
#handsoff
Use state police that don’t bend to Trump’s authority and if necessary the ‘Guard
They don’t have to secede, but they can enact a higher degree of independence and start stifling Trump and cutting him off from their resources
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These are the same males who claim women are emasculated them
They sent need our help, they're doing just fine on their own
Emasculating*
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We must call this what it is.
Civil war
It’s happening
@repilhan.bsky.social In March/April, some of the most important observances of 3 of the world's religions take place. I cant think of a better way to reflect their essences than to join @vanhollen.senate.gov on this righteous mission #BringAbregoGarciaBack
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia can’t even get them once.
(If these prisoners have already been killed, why are we paying them?)
Each & every prisoner we sent must be accounted for. Otherwise we shouldn't pay.
It's a way to get in.
I support Van Hollen's humanitarian motive to meet ES Dictator to at least determine is Abrego Garcia is still alive for the sake of his wife+3 children.
But what will be left of our Democracy by that time?
There may not even be a Democratic Party
democrats should have a bill written to immediately and indefinitely halt all US funds going to El Salvador.
republicans can reject, but it will squarely put US citizens sent there on their backs.
Very Dudes Rock Behavior
Very different situations, and arguably this one is much more dangerous
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It is going to be messy getting rid of him.
Hope you are all up to the task...
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