Wrongly deported Salvadorian man Kilmar Ábrego García has been held incommunicado and faced threats in prison that have left him “traumatized”, a Democratic senator said Friday after returning from meeting him in El Salvador.
Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the state Ábrego García had been living in with his US citizen wife and son until he was deported last month in what the Trump administration conceded was an “administrative error”, traveled to the central American country this week to see his constituent. After initially rejecting his request to meet Ábrego García and preventing him from traveling to the prison where he was being held, president Nayib Bukele’s government on Thursday facilitated a meeting at Van Hollen’s hotel.
