Chris Van Hollen condemns āunjust situationā and says vice-president blocked access to wrongly deported man***
Marylandās Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen says the government of El Salvador has denied his request to visit Kilmar Ćbrego GarcĆa, his constituent who was wrongly deported to the Central American country last month.
Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday with the intention of meeting Ćbrego GarcĆa at the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), where US authorities have said that the Maryland resident is being held along with others deported at Donald Trumpās orders.
The senatorās visit came days after Trump and El Salvadorās president, Nayib Bukele, refused to take steps to return Ćbrego GarcĆa to the United States, even though the US supreme court last week said the administration must āfacilitateā his return.
I canāt reason why you would make this comment, I have to assume no logic was used. How about the fact that ICE admitted that the man was deported in error, is that enough justification? Your comparison makes no sense because it assumes the man is being imprisoned for just cause. The Maryland man was a constituent of the Maryland senator.
Iām tired of the whataboutism bullshit rhetoric.
Guantanamo Bay doesnāt rely on any cause though? Itās literally a US torture camp where nothing matters. No due process, no just cause, no nothing. Itās worse than CECOT in everything but scale.
Have you ever seen any countryās opposition figure successfully demand something from another country? I personally havenāt. Usually the government alone controls any and all foreign relations.
Hell, Israel has literally detained and deported two British MPs on a parliamentary delegation - not just a visit. And theyāre part of the governing party, no less!
Itās genuinely not surprising that El Salvador reacts this way. Itās the literal default reaction to a nongovernmental politician demanding something.
And yes, I think itās appalling that the I US deports anyone and everyone, legally or otherwise. This doesnāt affect El Salvador though since they detain whoever the US sends there. The US argues this man is a terrorist, therefore this is sufficient justification for them.
Had Britain started deporting migrants to Rwanda and a MP from the Green Party requested to visit someone āmistakenlyā deported, they wouldāve been denied access as well.
I just really donāt think thereās anything noteworthy in the rejection alone.