Senator of Hollen returns from El Salvador, says 'Trump has the order of the Supreme Court' in Abrego Garcia Portation case | Today news

Senator Chris van Hollen said the wrongful deportation and imprisonment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia symbolizes a broader assault on the US legal system by the Trump administration. “It’s about protecting the constitutional rights of all living in the United States,” Maryland Democrat told reporters on his return of a three -day trip to El Salvador. Van Hollen, who spoke at Washington Dulles International Airport in the Washington Dulles, accused the White House of “blatantly, flagrant” who disregarded a US Supreme Court order that ordered the administration to help with the return of Abrego Garcia. “It is very clear that the president, Trump administration, blatant, disagrees, and upsets the Supreme Court’s order.” The wife of Abrego Garcia, Jennifer, accompanied tears and uncertainty, Jennifer, who wiped away tears as he conveyed her husband’s emotional remarks about his family’s mist. The senator met Abrego Garcia on Thursday in a detention center in Santa Ana, El Salvador, where he was moved from the dreaded Cecot-Mega prison. “He told me he was afraid while he was held with 25 other prisoners,” Van Hollen said. While acknowledging that the conditions were better at the new facility, he also noted that their conversation was carefully monitored by Salvadoran officials. The dual battle over immigration and executive power The Abrego Garcia case has become a flash point in the immigration debate. Democrats say President Donald Trump violates the rule of law and undermines judicial authority. Republicans oppose that Democrats defend a man who, according to them, is an MS-13 gang member the fact that there is no criminal complaint or evidence of gang affiliation. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Abrego Garcia “will never reside in the United States of America again.” Trump said on Friday: “His prison record is incredibly bad” and calls him an “illegal stranger” and a “foreign terrorist”. Trump also mocked Hollen and posted on social media that the senator “looked like a fool yesterday in El Salvador and begging for attention.” Bukele Stages Photo adds fuel to the fire, President of Salvadoran, Nayib Bukele, staged photos of the meeting between Van Hollen and Abrego Garcia, including drinks decorated to look like margaritas. “None of us drank them,” Van Hollen clarified and called it a propaganda plow. Bukele added an insult to the injury, saying that Abrego Garcia “gets the honor of staying in the supervision of El Salvador.” Courts push the legal battle back. ICE acknowledged that Abrego Garcia’s deportation was due to an ‘administrative error’. Nevertheless, the Trump administration refused to repatriate him. On Thursday, a panel of three judges of the 4th US Appeal Court rejected the government’s request to block further legal action and ordered the officers of administration to be terminated. Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan appointment, wrote in a strict rebuke: ‘The judiciary will be injured by the ongoing intimations of its illegality … [and] The executive branch will lose a lot due to a public perception of its lawlessness. ”First published: 19 Apr 2025, 22:32 IST