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Dem Sen. Van Hollen Denied Meeting Abrego Garcia During Sudden El Salvador Trip www.yahoo.com/news/van-hollen-denied-meeting-phone-192028000.html

66 sats \ 4 comments \ @Cje95 16 Apr Politics_And_Law

I love how he announced just a day or two ago how he would go to El Salvador if Abrego Garcia was not returned by midweek and is trying to make a spectacle out of this. Truly a bone headed full of yourself move to expect a country to bend the knee to you at a moments notice. The comps with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is wild given her position is above him... its why she is a confirmed person by the Senate for peats sake. In another country a Sen. has to follow the countries laws and rule but it appears that Sen. Van Hollen does not think that applies to him.... just wild move.

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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 17 Apr

Some useful context:

To hear Democrats like Sen. Chris Murphy (D-RI) tell it, Garcia was just an innocent, doting father who was randomly targeted by the Trump administration to be sent to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center. The Supreme Court then ordered Trump to return this “legal” resident back to the United States. Trump has refused, sending our nation into a constitutional crisis. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) has even announced he is going to personally travel to El Salvador to bring Garcia home.

The problem is that Democrats leave a lot out of Garcia’s story, and the truth makes Trump’s failure to return him quite reasonable.

For starters, Garcia was not in the United States legally. By his lawyer’s own admission, he entered the country illegally in 2011. Then, eight years later, Garcia was arrested at a Home Depot while illegally soliciting employment. The Prince George’s County Police Department then transferred him to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which began deportation proceedings against him.

As a defense to deportation, Garcia tried to claim asylum, claiming his life was in danger from the Barrio 18 gang. But his asylum claim was denied and the judge ordered his removal. The judge did, however, grant Garcia a “withholding of removal” order, forbidding his removal to El Salvador, but this did not make him a “legal” resident. As Garcia’s own lawyers admit, “Should [the Trump administration] wish to remove Plaintiff Abrego Garcia to any other country, they would have no legal impediment in doing so.”

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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 OP 17 Apr

Something interesting to think about to is Barrio 18 is a rival of MS-13…. Like a huge rival a shoot on sight rival…

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 17 Apr

I'm also curious why the Democrats have turned all their focus on this guy.

Is it mainly because the courts got involved? Or is he literally the most sympathetic deportee they could find? I would've imagined that there are plenty of sob stories they could tell... but if this is the most sympathetic one then I'd say the administration is doing pretty well for itself. (As horrible as it would be if the dude is actually an innocent father, the error rate is pretty low if he's the most sympathetic deportee.)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 17 Apr

It’s quite telling isn’t it? They have tried to paint this guy as if he is someone born and raised in the US when that clearly isn’t the truth at all