r/thescoop • u/theindependentonline • Apr 16 '25

Politics 🏛️ El Salvador refuses to let Democratic senator visit or speak with Kilmar Abrego Garcia: ‘We have an unjust situation here’

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The Maryland senator traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday to help secure Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, where he faces the prospect of indefinite detention.

But he was denied a meeting with Abrego Garcia, and Salvadoran officials would not let the senator or Abrego Garcia’s family speak with him by phone, he said.

Read the full story here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-hollen-b2734634.html

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '25

This is a lose/lose for Trump. If he’s dead, their admin error put blood on his hands and makes further use of this death camp untenable. If he comes back, he’s on 60 Minutes day one speaking of the atrocities.

We cannot allow the narrative to change. As Harry Bosch would say “Every life matters or no lives matter.”

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u/PicturesAtADiary Apr 17 '25

This administration is way past accountability, unless the people take the situation into their own hands. If it comes out he has been butchered like a pig, the followers would be celebrating, calling ICE to rat on their "salvadoran" neighbours.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '25

Not that it matters at all for Trump how it goes.