The Senator’s El Salvador visit is seen by Trump: « A fool »

Democratic Senator Chris van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday with the stated goal of meeting Kilmar Abrego Garcia. On Thursday evening, Van Hollen shared a picture of himself and the 29-year-old three-child father on the platform X.

« I have called his wife, Jennifer, to perform his love greetings, » the Senator wrote.

Abrego Garcia has been Resides in Maryland since he immigrated to the United States illegally from Venezuela as a 16-year-old. In 2019, an American migration court decided that he must not be deported to El Salvador, due to the risk of violence and persecution of local gangs. Despite this, the 29-year-old was sent to the country’s infamous Cecot prison, as one of 238 alleged gang criminal men.

The White House has admitted that he was deported as a result of an « administrative mistake ». Last week, the US Supreme Court decided that the White House must work to facilitate the man’s return to home in the United States. But the Ministry of Justice replied that the court does not have the power to decide how the White House should act on foreign policy issues.

Both the White House and El Salvador’s president have also argued that it is not in their power to do something to help Abrego Garcia.

When Senator Chris van Hollen visited Abrego Garcia on Thursday, he had been imprisoned at the Cecot prison for over a month.

One who was not impressed by the Senator’s journey is President Donald Trump. On his own platform Truth Social, he writes that Van Hollen « looked like a fool who stood in El Salvador and asked for attention from the fake media ».

« Games for the gallery !!! », Trump continues.

A wide majority of The Republicans who have stated so far have defended the government’s unwillingness to help the three -child dad – among other things by repeating unproven claims that he belongs to a criminal Venezuelan bunch. But now reports Washington Post The fact that there is a growing dissatisfaction among profiled conservatives in the United States with the government’s handling of the case.

Among the Conservatives who are now openly criticizing the Trump administration is Ed Whelan, a lawyer who had assignments within the Ministry of Justice during George W Bush’s government.

– What mainly strikes me is the total, venerable contempt they have shown to the rule of law. When you have admitted that he was expelled by mistake, you can’t just say: « Yes, it doesn’t matter, » Whelan says.

Another critic is the conservative radio program manager Erick Erickson.

« There is a great concern, even among trump supporters, that this is a limit that should not be crossed because it can eventually be used by the Democrats in a way we cannot foresee, » he says in his program, according to the Washington Post.