'Alarmed': Lawmakers reportedly flooded with calls demanding 'marooned' migrant's return
Voters who used a particular phone app had one major request for their representatives: Return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to his family in the United States, new data from a San Francisco nonprofit revealed.
Abrego Garcia has been held in El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center prison ever since he was mistakenly deported without receiving due process through a court hearing. Last week, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) traveled to El Salvador to meet with Abrego Garcia and advocate for his release. Neither President Donald Trump nor Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele would commit to securing his return to the United States.
The app, called 5 Calls, provides information on hot-button issues, plus a suggested script for concerned constituents to use when they call their lawmakers.
5 Calls shared this week's data with journalist Adam Klasfeld's "All Rise News."
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The "top takeaway," according to Klasfeld's blog, is that "people are alarmed about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man grabbed from his car in front of his 5-year-old autistic child and marooned inside a dangerous prison in El Salvador."
The data showed that the 5 Calls prompt, "Bring Abrego Garcia Home and Stop Trump's Plan to Traffic Civilians to a Foreign Gulag," brought in 83,340 calls in just four days.
“That's a LOT of calls," said data visualizations expert Katie Dektar.
According to the data, not all calls reached their intended congressional targets. Dektar noted that she "scaled the data by state population using recent Census statistics to reveal which elected officials received high call volume proportionally to their constituents."
The office with the highest call volume regarding Abrego Garcia belonged to Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Collins's office "received the most calls per 1,000 people of any senator," according to "All Rise News."