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‘Margarita or just water?’: Senator Chris van Hollen, El Salvador’s president trade claims over meeting optics

Senator Chris Van Hollen (left), Elsalvador president Nayib Bukele, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Senator Chris Van Hollen on Friday accused El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele of staging a deceptive media stunt during his meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a man the US government wrongfully deported under the Trump administration — by planting margarita glasses on […]

Why was US senator Chris Van Hollen allowed to meet deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador hours after being denied?

Picture credit: X/Chris Van Hollen Democrat US senator Chris Van Hollen met Kilmar Abrego Garcia, mistakenly deported under the Trump administration, at a hotel in El Salvador on Thursday, hours after being denied entry to the prison where Garcia is held. A photo posted by Hollen shows the two sitting across from each other in […]

Why Kilmar Abrego Garcia won’t be returned to the US despite Supreme Court order. ‘Not a Maryland man’

Kilmar Abrego Garcia won’t be returned to the US as Salvador president Nayib Bukele said the idea is preposterous to him. The White House meeting between President Donald Trump and El Salvador president Nayib Bukele Monday made one thing clear that Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador won’t be […]

El Salvador President says he won’t return man mistakenly deported

President Donald Trump, right, meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Monday, April 14, 2025. President Trump met with President Bukele as the administration ramps up its use of a notorious Salvadoran prison for holding migrants deported by the U.S. (Eric Lee/The New […]

Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Trump administration confirms mistakenly deported man is in El Salvador prison, but offers no way back

Representative image (Picture credit: AP) The Trump administration confirmed on Saturday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident mistakenly deported last month, remains confined in a notorious prison in El Salvador but did not provide the full scope of information demanded by a federal judge regarding efforts to bring him back.In a court filing submitted, […]

‘Not asking for state secrets’: Judge orders daily updates as Trump administration struggles to locate wrongfully deported man

File photo: US President Donald Trump (left) and Kilmar Abrego Garcia (Picture credit: AP) A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to provide daily updates on efforts to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, after a tense hearing in which justice department lawyers admitted they could not say […]

Erez Reuveni: Who is Erez Reuveni? DOJ official put on leave after failing to defend deportation case

Representative image (Picture credit: AP) Erez Reuveni, a senior Justice Department lawyer, has been placed on paid administrative leave after a high-profile courtroom appearance where he failed to defend the government’s position in the controversial deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man wrongly sent to El Salvador. As reported by ABC News, the DOJ […]

Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Federal Judge again orders Trump administration to return man wrongly deported to El Salvador

Representative image (Picture credit: AP) A US federal judge has, for the second time, ordered the Trump administration to return a Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador, despite warnings he would face danger there.The man, 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia, remains jailed in El Salvador’s infamous Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot), after being […]

Trump administration pushes back against court order to return man mistakenly deported to El Salvador

In this undated photo provided by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, a man identified by Jennifer Vasquez Sura as her husband, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is led by force by guards through the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (AP photo) The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to […]