US senator visits deported El Salvadoran
WASHINGTON—The dispute over the wrongful deportation and imprisonment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia “is not only about one man” but about Donald Trump’s disregard of the American judicial system as well, Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Friday as he returned from a three-day trip to El Salvador to press for the detained man’s release.
This developed as the White House and Trump’s allies disclosed information about Abrego Garcia having allegedly physically abused his then-girlfriend Jennifer Vasquez Sura, whom he has since married.
In May 2021, Sura sought a restraining order against Abrego Garcia after he allegedly “punched and scratched” her, “ripped off [her] shirt,” and “grabbed and bruised” her during a series of arguments.
Also, the mother of Rachel Morin who was brutally raped and murdered by an El Salvadoran illegal migrant criticized Van Hollen for using taxpayer money to visit Abrego Garcia while barely acknowledging her daughter’s gruesome death.
Heinous
Morin, a mother of five who was from Maryland, was attacked by Salvadoran Victor Martinez-Hernandez while she was jogging in Bel Air, Maryland, in August 2023.
The illegal migrant has been convicted of the heinous crime earlier this month.
Speaking to reporters after landing back in the United States, Van Hollen offered few answers about what will come next in Abrego Garcia’s case.
But the Maryland Democrat said that he and others will keep speaking out after the Trump administration defied court orders to facilitate his return to the United States and insisted that he would stay in El Salvador—even as officials acknowledged an “error” in deporting him.
“It’s about protecting the constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States,” Van Hollen said at Washington Dulles International Airport.
