American senator Chris Van Hollen directly criticized the Trump government, accusing him of ignoring the Supreme Court, which in a ruling last week ordered that the return of Kilmar to the Kilmar to be “facilitated”
Kilmar Abrego García, the Salvadoran migrant who was expelled from the United States despite having a legal status in the country, was transferred to another prison in El Salvador after having spent several weeks detained in the maximum security prison known as the Center for Confinement for Terrorism (CECOT).
The details of this new transfer were given by the American senator Chris van Hollen, who visited El Salvador to ask the Nayib Bikele government to free Abrego, a resident more than a decade ago in Maryland, a state that the legislator represents.
Van Hollen managed to meet with Abrego on Thursday, April 17 in San Salvador and gave this Friday a press conference where he reported details of his conversation and He accused the Trump government for lying on the Salvadoran case and violating the Constitution.
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The senator reported that Garcia was transferred “nine days” to another jail in Santa Anta, to the west of the country, but that he still can not be able to communicate with the outside and is “traumatized” after his experience in the Megacárcel, notorious for the complaints of abuses to human rights.
“(Ábrego) he feels very sad to be detained, because he has not committed any crime,” said Van Hollen and added that the Salvadoran authorities have not given the 29 -year -old migrant an explanation of why he is detained.
The Salvadoran vice president, Félix Ulloa, with whom Van Hollen also met, told the legislator that Ábrego was imprisoned because Trump “is paying” to keep him detained.
Ábrego has not been able to talk to his wife or children, all American citizens, and told Van Hollen that thinking about his family is what gives him “strength” to continue “every day.”
The senator criticized the Trump government directly, accusing him of ignoring the Supreme Court, which in a ruling last week ordered that the return of Ábrego be “facilitated”.
Ábrego García, who resided in the state of Maryland, fled from El Salvador for the extortion and threats that he and his family received from the Barrio 18 gang, according to judicial documents presented by his defense.
The Trump government has undertaken a media campaign to link it with the MS-13 gang, although it has no criminal record in the US.
With EFE information
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