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Maryland senator says he will travel to El Salvador today to push for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release

Sen. Chris Van Hollen announced that he will travel to El Salvador today to push for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man the Justice Department said it mistakenly deported.

“My hope is to visit Kilmar and check on his wellbeing and to hold constructive conversations with government officials around his release. We must urgently continue working to return Kilmar safely home to Maryland,” Van Hollen, D-Md., said in a statement last night, calling Abrego Garcia’s deportation “unlawful” and an “abduction.”

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