Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he has met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who immigration officials say was deported by error, in El Salvador on Thursday.

The senator shared a photo with Abrego Garcia at what appears to be a restaurant.

“I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar,” Sen. Van Hollen said. “Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.”

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    I hate how everyone repeats the administration’s claim that this was “in error.” Bullshit. They absolutely did it on purpose. Being able to say “too late lol” is part of their plan, and it’s a plausible enough excuse to reduce further scrutiny on all the other innocent people they shipped there.

    The Trump administration is full of soulless monsters and they all need to be stopped, one way or another.

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    Lots of negative things to say about dems but Van Hollen did a good and difficult thing here. If more dems are willing to behave like him, we can get through this.

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    Never been so happy to be so wrong. I’m glad he’s alive and functional, more Democrats need to follow up on the realities on the ground level.

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    The hell, they can take him out of the concentration camp for a restaurant interview but can’t just, yah know, let him out?

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    Multiple sources across the internet are posting this google earth satellite image of this Prison in El Salvador. 60 minutes reported that 75% of the 200 people Trump sent to this prison have no criminal record. Monday trump told the El Salvadorian president to build more prisons because he’s sending homegrown Americans next

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    This is reactionary. They go to meet with the person who was clearly wrongly imprisoned, but where are the calls for impeachment and removal from the Presidency? Oh wait… there are none. Cowards.

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      I know that hating America is cooler than ever, but if you genuinely can’t see how a global superpower heading down a shockingly similar trajectory to nazi germany is absolutely a world news story, you’re being willfully ignorant