During a press conference on Monday, Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) answered questions about the due process for the people Trump has sent to El Salvador.
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00:00Any other contacts with the Zabodran government?
00:03We saw him, we saw President Bukele trolling, essentially, Senator Van Hollen.
00:08What comments or interactions have you had with the government?
00:11We have some additional meetings this afternoon, which we're not going to get into at this moment.
00:17What I will say is that I think it's, we've been very clear that the United States Supreme Court
00:23is demanding that the Trump administration work to bring back Kilmar Abreu-Garcia.
00:28We know that our president has a strong relationship with the president of El Salvador
00:34and certainly our allies, and we have no doubt that if Donald Trump wants Abreu-Garcia back in the United States,
00:43that Abreu-Garcia would right now be back in the United States.
00:46This is on Donald Trump.
00:48Our president needs to bring and follow the orders of the Supreme Court.
00:52I don't know if anybody else wants to add to that.
00:53Dozens of Venezuelan migrants were deported from the U.S. as well.
00:58Bloomberg reported that 90% of them didn't have a criminal record in the U.S.
01:01I hear a lot of talk about Kilmar.
01:03What have you been doing so far for these other Venezuelan migrants?
01:05I'll say that is also why we're here and the reason why we think this situation is so urgent because it isn't just about Kilmar.
01:13It is the fact that our government is relentlessly going after any immigrant that's trying to come to the United States
01:19or is in the United States without any regard for due process.
01:22So while Kilmar's case has been highlighted and we want to see him freed, as my colleague said, we want to see Andre Romero freed.
01:29We want to see those Venezuelans.
01:31If they have not been convicted of a crime, they should not be in prison here.
01:35So this is about all of it.
01:37This is about due process for everyone.
01:39And it is just completely egregious that the United States government had these legal processes set up like the CBP1 app.
01:46People trusted us.
01:47Our allies and folks coming into our country trusted that those systems would work, and we turned our backs on them
01:52and instead illegally deported them off to a prison where they have no answers, no access to counsel, no anything.
01:59So we want to see due process for all of those folks.