Maryland Democrat says he was denied access to Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

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Maryland Democrat says he was denied access to Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

WASHINGTON – Maryland Democrat Rep. Glenn Ivey said he was denied access to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a recent trip to El Salvador.

Abrego Garcia, a union sheet metal worker and father of three from Maryland, was wrongly deported to the Central American country in March. He was taken to the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center,

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, before being transferred to a facility with better conditions in April.

Ivey, who

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on May 23,

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that the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador had informed the Salvadoran government of his visit, but he was denied access to see Abrego Garcia.

In April, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, also a Maryland Democrat, traveled to El Salvador and met with Abrego Garcia. And four House Democrats took a trip in April to El Salvador and were briefed by the U.S. embassy on his case.

‘We have a right to do this’

In a

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on May 27, Ivey said he was told he needed a permit.

“They knew we were coming, they knew why we were coming, and they know we have the right to do this. So, they need to just cut the crap, let us get in there and have a chance to see him and talk with him,” Ivey said.

Sep 26, 2024; Washington, DC, USA; Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md. speaks during a congressional task force hearing on the assassination attempt of former President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pa. on July 13, 2024.. Mandatory Credit: Jack Gruber/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

In response to Ivey’s post, the Department of Homeland Security

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, “While the mainstream media and politicians are fighting to bring a foreign terrorist and gang member back to U.S. soil,

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Trump and

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are fighting for the victims of alien crime and putting the safety of Americans FIRST.”

The Trump administration insists Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang, but a federal judge has questioned the strength of the government’s evidence. Abrego Garcia denies being a gang member and has no criminal convictions.

The

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ordered the Trump administration to

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, but the Justice Department has argued it does not have the authority to return him to the United States because he is in a foreign country.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland said during a hearing on May 16 that the Justice Department had not made a “good faith” effort to comply with her request to provide information on what the government was doing to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States.

Contributing: Nick Penzenstadler and Eduardo Cuevas

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:

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