US Senator Van Hollen meets wrongly deported man in El Salvador

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) speaks at a press conference in San Salvador, during a visit to El Salvador, to advocate for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man deported from the U.S. without due process by the Trump administration, as an alleged MS-13 gang member and sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a maximum security prison, April 17, 2025. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

(Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen met on Thursday with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador in a case that has pitted a defiant Trump administration against the courts and fanned the prospect of a constitutional conflict.

The senator posted on X an image of himself in El Salvador with Abrego Garcia, dressed in a collared shirt, jeans and a baseball cap, a day after being denied access to the notorious prison for gang members where he has been held.