A delegation of Democratic US lawmakers has visited El Salvador in a new push to secure the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the US resident wrongly deported by the Trump administration. The 29-year-old was expelled along with nearly 300 other migrants who US authorities say are criminals and gang members, with the Trump administration paying El Salvador millions of dollars to lock them up.
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00:00We're here because we believe that the rule of law should be followed by everyone, including
00:23the President of the United States.
00:25And we're in a situation where the administration has sent someone here to El Salvador by mistake.
00:33We're going to fight like hell to make sure he comes back home to have due process there,
00:37but that this doesn't happen to anybody else.
00:55From what we have heard, there is no reason for me to believe that our administration,
01:13the Trump administration is doing anything to facilitate his safe return home.
01:28In fact, we just had a meeting earlier today with the embassy.
01:31We left that meeting with
01:33the U.S.