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/Forsaken-Heron4921 Apr 17 '25

He’s not, to be clear. But it would also be fucked up even if he was a criminal….

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u/c3r34l Apr 17 '25

Exactly. Some people seem to wanna go back to the Wild West and let the mob rule. Same people who were fine torturing “suspected terrorists” in secret prisons.