Deported illegal alien and suspected MS-13 gang member transferred from notorious El Salvadoran mega-prison

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an amerciable migrant with alleged ties to a convulsive pack who was deported to El Salvador, had been transferred from the country's notorious mega prison, Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), days earlier U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., arrived successful the state past week to propulsion for his freedom.

Van Hollen told reporters aft returning to the U.S. connected Friday and again connected Sunday that Abrego Garcia, 29, is nary longer successful CECOT, a assertion that was filed successful the government’s regular update, obtained by Fox News, and present confirmed successful penning by the State Department.

The filing states, "Abrego Garcia told Sen. Van Hollen connected April 17 that helium had been transferred from CECOT to the detention installation ‘Centro Industrial’ successful Santa Ana astir 8 days prior. Abrego Garcia told Sen. Van Hollen that helium had been placed successful the administrative gathering of Centro Industrial, successful a country of his ain with a furniture and furniture, and that helium was not successful a cell."

In an X station Sunday, Van Hollen called retired President Donald Trump, writing, "When you defy tribunal orders and contradict 1 antheral his Constitutional rights, you endanger them for ALL."

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"Trump tin station each helium wants, but a national justice said there's ‘no grounds linking Abrego Garcia to MS-13 oregon to immoderate violent activity.’ Trump needs to enactment up oregon unopen up IN COURT."

Trump has argued that "radical, lunatic, Democrats" are portraying a mendacious communicative of who Abrego Garcia truly is.

"Radical Lunatic Democrats and their Comrades successful the Fake News Media are falsely making Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia retired to beryllium a precise saccharine and guiltless person, which is simply a total, blatant, and unsafe LIE," Trump wrote successful a station connected his societal media platform, Truth Social.

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Abrego Garica's deportation has caused uproar among Democrats, galore of whom person referred to him arsenic a wrongfully deported "Maryland man." 

Last week, Van Hollen flew to El Salvador wherever Abrego Garcia was being held astatine CECOT, and was mocked by Trump for being a "fool." Other Democrat lawmakers reportedly made plans to sojourn Abrego Garcia aft Van Hollen's announcement.

"Garcia has been recovered by 2 abstracted Courts to beryllium a subordinate of the violent, slayer pack MS-13, was successful our Country illegally, and is nether a Deportation Order. It is despicable and unAmerican for Liberals and the Mainstream Media to hatred our Country truthful much, and beryllium obsessed with protecting criminals, alternatively of moving to support our Border, streets, and families safe. Those lying to the American People connected behalf of convulsive criminals person to beryllium held liable by the Agencies and the Courts. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" — President Donald Trump

The White House has not held backmost successful its criticisms of Van Hollen's visit. On Friday, the White House posted side-by-side photos of Trump connected X gathering with the parent of Rachel Morin, who was murdered by an amerciable migrant successful 2023, and Van Hollen sitting with Abrego Garcia with the caption: "We are not the same."

Rachel Morin was a Maryland resident, arsenic is her mother, Patty, who said Van Hollen had not reached retired to her since her girl was murdered.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, left, meets with Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., center, successful El Salvador connected Thursday. (X/@nayibbukele)

"To person a legislator from Maryland who didn't adjacent acknowledge, oregon hardly acknowledge, my girl and the brutal decease that she endured, leaving her 5 children without a parent and present a grandbaby without a grandma truthful that helium tin usage my payer wealth to alert to El Salvador to bring backmost idiosyncratic that's not adjacent an American citizen, wherefore does that idiosyncratic person much rights than I do, oregon my girl oregon my grandchildren? I don't recognize this," she said. 

Abrego Garcia was suspected of partaking successful labor/human trafficking, according to a 2022 Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) study obtained by Fox News. The study besides stated that "official instrumentality enforcement investigations" revealed that Abrego Garcia was a subordinate of the notorious pack MS-13, which Trump has designated arsenic a panic organization.

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The White House released a split-screen representation overnight to underscore the stark opposition betwixt wherever Republicans and Democrats basal connected amerciable immigration. (The White House | Sen. Van Hollen via X)

According to the report, connected Dec. 1, 2022, a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper stopped Garcia aft helium was "observed speeding" and incapable to enactment successful his lane. The trooper noticed 8 individuals successful the car with Abrego Garcia, who said helium began driving 3 days anterior from Houston to Temple Hills, Maryland, via St. Louis, to "perform operation work." The study states that the trooper suspected it was a quality trafficking incidental arsenic determination was nary luggage successful the vehicle. The individuals successful the car reportedly besides gave the aforesaid code arsenic Abrego Garica's location address.

When speaking with the trooper, Abrego Garcia allegedly "pretended to talk little English than helium was susceptible of and attempted to enactment the encountering serviceman off-track by responding to questions with questions." After the incident, the serviceman decided not to springiness Abrego Garcia a citation for the driving infractions but alternatively to springiness him a informing for driving with an expired license. 

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Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the woman of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, speaks during a quality league astatine CASA's Multicultural Center successful Hyattsville, Md., connected April 4. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The HSI study besides notes that successful October 2019, the Prince Georges County Police Gang Unit identified Abrego Garcia arsenic a subordinate of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang.

Abrego Garcia was besides precocious revealed to person a grounds of being a "violent" repetition woman beater, according to tribunal records filed successful a Prince George’s County, Md., territory tribunal by his wife, Jennifer Vasquez.

Last week, the Supreme Court upheld a little court's determination ordering the Trump medication to put Abrego Garcia’s return. The tribunal required the "government to 'facilitate' Abrego Garcia's merchandise from custody successful El Salvador and to guarantee that his lawsuit is handled arsenic it would person been had helium not been improperly sent to El Salvador." 

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The Trump medication agreed to wide immoderate administrative obstacles keeping Abrego Garcia from returning to the U.S., but Attorney General Pam Bondi has said that returning him is "up to El Salvador, if they privation to instrumentality him. That's not up to us." 

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., holds a quality league Friday astatine Dulles International Airport successful Virginia aft his sojourn to El Salvador to conscionable with deported Maryland amerciable migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia. (Pool)

The Trump medication has continued to support it was close to deport Abrego Garcia to CECOT, contempt galore Democrats suggesting helium was wrongly deported, adjacent going arsenic acold arsenic to accidental helium was kidnapped by the administration.

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Speaking with Fox News past week, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Abrego Garcia is "exactly wherever helium belongs: location successful El Salvador."

"The media would emotion for you to judge that this is immoderate media darling, that helium is conscionable immoderate Maryland father, but Osama bin Laden was besides a father, and yet helium wasn’t a bully guy, and they are really some terrorists," she added. "He should beryllium successful this El Salvador prison, situation for terrorists, and I anticipation helium volition stay there."

Fox News Digital's Rachel Wolf and Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.