TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) joins other Democrats who plan to go to El Salvador if they are deported by mistake this week.
This idea was proposed by Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). He represents the state where the man Kilmer Abrego Garcia lived before being sent to El Salvador.
Abrego Garcia, a citizen of El Salvador, was protected from deportation by an immigrant judge in 2019.
Van Hollen wrote to Ambassador El Salvador on Sunday, demanding a meeting with President Naive Buquere to discuss “the illegal detention of my constituent Kilmer Abrego Garcia.”
Buquere was in the White House on Monday to meet President Trump, calling the question of whether it would “silly” promote Abrego Garcia’s return.
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Van Hollen said in a statement that if Abrego Garcia is not returned to the US by the middle of the week, he will “check his condition and discuss his release” to travel to El Salvador.
In X, Frost expressed his support for Van Hollen’s plan, saying he would join him and help organize other representatives to do the same.
“We must all stand as a united front against the lure and illegal detention of Kilmer Abrego Garcia of El Salvador,” Frost wrote in X.
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Other Democrats also took part in the phone call. These included Rep. Yasamine Ansari (D-Ariz.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), who responded to Frost’s posts, “I’ll come in.”
Frost and Garcia wrote to the chair of the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, officially requesting a delegation of Congressional members to visit the largest security prison where Abrego Garcia is holding.
The letter ordered the Supreme Court’s decision last week to encourage the federal government to return Abrego Garcia and entry from the ice that his deportation was due to “administrative errors.”
The representative also mentioned Trump’s recent comments. He says that we will consider sending citizens to El Salvador prisons, saying it justifies the council oversight of the facility.
“We are ready to travel as soon as possible,” the representative wrote. “We are happy to include Republicans on the committee who wish to participate.”
Axios reported that dozens of Democrats in Congress have personally expressed interest in taking part in a trip to El Salvador, but official trips to the country will require approval from Republican Chairman James Kommer (R-KY.), the House Oversight Committee.
