El Salvador President Nayib Bukele allowed Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen to meet with deported migrant and suspected labor-trafficker Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
But while Bukele released Abrego Garcia from jail for the meeting, he also dampened Democrats’ hopes of flying the Salvadoran migrant back to the United States. Democrats hope the migrant can play a central role in their mid-term election strategy of anti-Trump PR campaigns, myriad legal reviews and appeals from crying women.
Bukele said via X:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the “death camps” & “torture”, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!” …. Now that he’s been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador’s custody.
The meeting came as more details were revealed about the 2022 police stop that showed Abrego Garcia likely served as an illegal labor trafficker just three years after he was approved for deportation in 2019. A leaked federal report says Abrega Garcia was driving with an expired license when he was pulled over by a policeman in Tennessee, and that:
There was no luggage in the vehicle, leading the…
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