Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) accused the Trump administration of blatantly lying about the whereabouts of wrongfully deported immigrant Kilmar Ábrego García on Wednesday.
After touching down in El Salvador to inquire about García's whereabouts, Van Hollen said that he was not able to see García nor even to have a phone call with him.
Per CBS News' Scott MacFarlane, Van Hollen explicitly said that "the Trump administration is lying" about García.
"If you listen to President Trump... you would think that U.S. courts have found that Mr. Ábrego García is part of MS-13," Van Hollen said, referring to the violent criminal gang whose origins are in Central America. "But in fact they have not found that. Recently a U.S. federal judge said that the Trump administration did not have evidence to support the claim that he had ever been part of MS-13."
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He also emphasized that García has never been charged with a crime.
García has been held at the Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT), a megaprison in El Salvador that has faced numerous accusations of human rights abuses.
The Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to facilitate García's return to the country but so far it has not taken any steps to do so.
