Sen. Chris Van Hollen Dodges Questions About Whether Abrego Garcia Belongs to MS-13 After El Salvador Visit

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Van Hollen Suggests He's OK With Deporting Abrego Garcia With Key Condition

The Democratic senator traveled to El Salvador, where the El Salvadoran national was deported, last week to meet directly with Abrego Garcia, who previously resided in Maryland with his wife and children.

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Sen. Van Hollen defends El Salvador visit to support deported man’s ‘due process’ - UPI.com

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., in an interview Sunday defended his recent trip to El Salvador to meet with a man from his state who was erroneously deported by the Trump administration. Van Hollen, speaking in an interview with ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl, said the visit to meet with imprisoned Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a matter of defending the U.S. Constitution.

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Sen. Chris Van Hollen repeatedly sidesteps whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia was MS-13 gangbanger when asked on CNN

Van Hollen (D-Md.), who met with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador on Thursday, accused President Trump of trying to change the subject on due process concerns, while he himself attempted to shift the discussion from MS-13.

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Van Hollen Deflects Twice After CNN’s Dana Bash Asks Point Blank If Abrego Garcia Is a ‘Member of MS-13’

Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador to visit Abrego Garcia, who was deported in March by the Trump administration despite being granted legal status in 2019.

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Van Hollen Wouldn't Ask Abrego Garcia If He Was in MS-13

Sen. Chris Van Hollen refused to say Abrego Garcia isn’t MS-13 during an interview with Dana Bash. He referred back to Obama-appointed Judge Xinis, who said she didn't believe Garcia was an MS- 13 member. He also went into a spiel about Donald Trump trying to change the subject, even though THIS IS THE SUBJECT.

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Van Hollen says El Salvador wanted Abrego Garcia meeting to ‘look like he was in paradise’

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, wanted his meeting with the mistakenly deported Maryland man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, to “look like he was in paradise.” The …

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Sen. Chris Van Hollen argues Trump administration’s actions in Abrego Garcia case ‘threaten everybody’s rights’ - WTOP News

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who recently met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, slammed the Trump administration for its handling of the mistaken deportation.

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Sen. Van Hollen Accuses Trump Border Czar of Lying About Deportations: ‘Respect This Person’s Constitutional Rights’ | Video

Maryland’s senator also tells ABC’s Jon Karl about his visit to see Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

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Full interview with Sen. Chris Van Hollen | CNN Politics

Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen joins CNN’s State of the Union after his trip to El Salvador.

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Sen. Chris Van Hollen argues Trump administration’s actions in Abrego Garcia case ‘threaten everybody’s rights’ | CNN Politics

Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen, fresh off his visit to El Salvador where he met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, slammed the Trump administration for its handling of the mistaken deportation case, telling CNN that it poses a threat to “the constitutional rights of everybody in America.”

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Dem Senator Claims MS-13 Members Were ‘Illegally Abducted’ By Trump Admin

Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland traveled to El Salvador to meet with members of foreign prison gangs. He told MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski that the U.S. government kidnapped the gang members and sent them to foreign prisons against the law. “Our Constitution requires due process before people can be deprived of their liberty,” he said. He added, “I’ve said they need to put up or shut up”

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Democrat Van Hollen Sidesteps Questions About His Drinking Buddy - the Wife Beater and Human Trafficker Kilmar Garcia - Refuses to Admit He's a Gangbanger Despite MS13 Knuckles (VIDEO)

Sen. Van Hollen says there is no evidence linking Abrego Garcia to MS13. He says the case should be dealt with in the courts, not on social media. The Maryland Democrat was in El Salvador this week with the gang member, who is now in the U.S.

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Van Hollen insults those who immigrate legally

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador to meet with and lobby for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States is an insult to the immigrants who came to this country legally. It is likely he aspires to run for a higher office and he is grandstanding on issues that will give him more visibility.

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Van Hollen skirts question as to whether Abrego Garcia is MS-13 member

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) danced around a question about claims by the Trump administration that a deported Salvadoran national is a member of the MS-13 gang. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant, was deported to El Salvador last month, despite a “withholding order” preventing him from being deported to that specific country over fears he would be persecuted.

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Van Hollen Admits El Salvador Trip Was Funded By Taxpayers, Ignores Questions About Abrego Garcia's 'MS-13 Ties'

Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen admitted on Sunday that taxpayer funds paid for his trip to El Salvador in an attempt to release an illegal alien. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported from the U.S. after being deemed a member of MS-13 by the Department of Justice. The trip was “officially cleared, you know, [as a] Congressional trip’

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