Four House Democrats traveled to El Salvador to demand the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man wrongly deported to the Central American country in what the White House initially acknowledged was an “administrative error.” Rep. Maxine Dexter, D-Oregon, who took the trip with Reps. Robert Garcia, D-California, Maxwell Frost, D-Florida and Yassamin Ansari, D-Arizona, told USA TODAY in a phone interview they were briefed by the U.S. embassy in El Salvador on April 21 about Abrego Garcia's case.

Four House Democrats have traveled to El Salvador to, in the words of one member, remind Americans that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an El Salvadoran migrant who had been living in Maryland, was wrongfully deported to his home country. “While Donald Trump continues to defy the Supreme Court, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held illegally in El Salvador after being wrongfully deported,” said California Rep. Robert Garcia, one of the four. “That is why we’re here – to remind the American people that kidnapping immigrants and deporting them without due process is not how we do things in America.” The other three making the trip and who arrived Monday are Reps. Maxwell Frost, of Florida; Maxine Dexter, of Oregon; and Yassamin Ansari, of Arizona, according to The New York Times.

Four more Democratic lawmakers traveled to El Salvador to visit an illegal immigrant and suspected MS-13 gang member deported by President Donald Trump’s administration. Reps. Robert Garcia of California, Maxwell Frost of Florida, Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, and Maxine Dexter of Oregon announced in a press release Monday that they had arrived in El Salvador "to pressure the Trump Administration to abide by a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia." The four Democrats described Garcia as "a Maryland man with protected legal status who was unlawfully deported by the Trump Administration." Their visit comes after Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., flew to El Salvador last week to visit Abrego Garcia, who had been transferred from the country's notorious mega prison, Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), in Tecoluca to the detention facility "Centro Industrial" in Santa Ana days earlier.