BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK
Sen. Chris Van Hollen travelled to El Salvador this past Wednesday to speak with Abrego Garcia, but was initially denied by El Salvador. Images online show him meeting him in person the next day.
In a statement Thursday night, the White House called Van Hollen's efforts in support of Abrego Garcia "disgusting" and said Trump will "continue to stand on the side of law-abiding Americans."
Garcia was in the United States as far back as 2011. The government, however, alleges that Garcia was an "active member of the criminal gang MS-13," citing an unidentified informant at a 2019 bond hearing.
Garcia's lawyers strenuously deny that and claim the government "has never produced an iota of evidence to support this unfounded allegation." Garcia left El Salvador to escape gang violence, his lawyers say, after gangsters threatened to kill him in an attempt to extort his parents.
More at NBC.
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