Casey Murray

3 days ago | notus.org | Daniella Diaz |Casey Murray

As the Trump administration fights a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the Maryland man with legal status who was deported to El Salvador — House Democrats are trying to bring attention to the standoff by showing up in El Salvador and demanding due process for Abrego Garcia. Democratic Reps. Robert Garcia, Maxwell Frost, Yassamin Ansari and Maxine Dexter were all in El Salvador as of Monday demanding that Abrego Garcia be returned to the United States.

6 days ago | notus.org | Casey Murray

Sen. Chris Van Hollen told reporters Friday that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia said he’s been traumatized from his experiences in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison and another Salvadoran detention center. “Getting a meeting with Kilmar was not easy,” Van Hollen said after returning from El Salvador, where he met with Abrego Garcia on Thursday. “He’s obviously in a terrible situation, as I said, he’s experienced trauma.

1 week ago | notus.org | Casey Murray

Sen. Chris Van Hollen has met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the man the Trump administration mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison. Van Hollen, who travelled to El Salvador Wednesday, posted about the meeting on X late Thursday night. The post included photos of himself sitting down with Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident. “I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance,” the post reads.

1 week ago | notus.org | Casey Murray

Questions over the mistaken deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia are spilling out in town halls. “Are you gonna bring that guy back from El Salvador?” one person asked Sen. Chuck Grassley at a town hall on Tuesday. Other attendees cheered. After Grassley responded that it’s “not a power of Congress,” he was heckled by multiple participants, who accused the Trump administration of defying the Supreme Court by refusing to bring back Abrego Garcia from prison in El Salvador. Rep.

1 week ago | notus.org | Casey Murray

Republican Rep. Riley Moore posted a photo on Tuesday of himself smiling with two thumbs up inside the Salvadoran mega prison holding Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and other U.S. deportees. A day later, Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen wasn’t allowed inside. Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador to push for the release of Abrego Garcia, who lived in Maryland before he was deported to the prison last month.