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US senator meets wrongly deported migrant Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

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Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland [right] speaks with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was wrongly deported to El Salvador [Press Office Senator Van Hollen via AP]

A member of the United States Senate has returned from a trip to El Salvador, where he sought the return of a wrongfully deported man in a case that has prompted outrage over President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” policy.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29, was living in the eastern state of Maryland until he became one of more than 200 people flown to a prison in El Salvador in last month.

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