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00:00So I will keep at this, but I can assure you that while I may be the first senator and first member of the United States Congress to come here to El Salvador in this case, I certainly will not be the last. There will be many more coming.
00:30Because we won't give up until Kilmar has his due process rights respected.
00:39People of the United States want to have a very good relationship with the people of El Salvador, and that includes expanding our economic relationship.
00:51But I will say that if the government of El Salvador remains complicit in the illegal detention of Mr. Abrego Garcia in Seacott Prison, then there will be, I think actions proposed certainly, to take until we resolve this very important issue.
01:21And we need to make sure that the court system works and due process works, because if you take it away for any individual, it's a very short road to taking it away for every American.
01:40So there's been no ability, no ability to find out anything about his health and well-being.
01:49The U.S. Embassy here has not been asked by the Trump administration to inquire about his health and well-being.
02:06And I should point out that this inability to communicate with his lawyers is a violation of international law.
02:26El Salvador is a party to the international covenant on civil and political rights.
02:45Our goal was very simple today, which was to check on the health and well-being of Gilmark.
02:57But we were stopped by soldiers at a checkpoint about three kilometers from Seacott Prison.
03:13We were told by the soldiers that they'd been ordered not to allow us to proceed any further than that point.
03:28So here's an example from Hanover in Spanish as well.