Donald Trump is openly defying court orders in refusing to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US after illegally deporting the legal US resident to a brutal prison in El Salvador. This is a dangerous precedent that takes this lawless administration closer to disappearing people – including American citizens.
Senator Chris Van Hollen has announced that he will travel to El Salvador Wednesday to check on the well being of Kilmar, who is a constituent. Shortly after Van Hollen's announcement, Representative Maxwell Frost said he was willing to go also. Now, Reps. Yassamin Ansari and Robert Garcia have also signed on to courageously confront Trump's unconstitutional deportation of Kilmar Abrego head-on.
If Trump gets away with illegally deporting Kilmar, he will likely expand these authoritarian tactics further. He has already publicly expressed a desire to send U.S. citizens to El Salvadoran prisons, even suggesting to El Salvador's president that the country should build five more prisons to handle the volume.
Despite Trump's acknowledgment of the wrongful deportation, his administration has refused to act, enabling further abuses of executive power. But Senator Van Hollen and Representatives Garcia, Frost, and Ansari refuse to let Trump's authoritarian overreach go unchallenged.
Their visit to El Salvador is about much more than one individual's wellbeing — it's a direct stand against Trump's dangerous disregard for constitutional rights and due process.
Your support is crucial as we fight back and hold Trump accountable. Together, we all must push back against unconstitutional deportations and Trump’s authoritarianism.
Thank you for fighting in this moment.
-- The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (Follow us on BlueSky: @BoldProgressives.org)
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