#BreakingNews
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) has confirmed that he met today with #WrongfullyDeported man #KilmarAbregoGarcia in #ElSalvador. The two shared a meal, and the Senator was able to relay messages to and from Abrego Garcia's wife.

Van Hollen had earlier announced he was heading to El Salvador to meet with Abrego Garcia. Initially, the Senator attempted to visit Abrego Garcia in the prison, but was turned away. Thursday afternoon, he posted photos of himself and Mr. #AbregoGarcia with the text:

"I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight, I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return."
[ @VanHollen.Senate.gov on #BlueSky ]

#ElSalvadorPrison #Trending #Deportations #TrendingNews #Immigration #ICE #SenVanHollen #ChristopherVanHollen #VanHollen #Maryland #Deported

https://youtu.be/pVs1U9EQMm8?si=FT4wKluxoKZ3-ZEk

#fascism #trump #ice

https://substack.com/@krassenstein/note/c-109834325?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Here is the full-size photo that was shared on the "bird site" (Twitter) of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Take a really good look at this photo. - I am not trying to be that guy, but take a good look at this.

#KilmarAbregoGarcia #KlimarGarcia #ElSavador #Ice #Justice

Don't think the cops and government can make *YOU* disappear? Think again.

Update: He has been released, but still has to return on May 6 to face charges he crossed into Florida illegally, despite being born in the US.

US Citizen Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez, arrested for crossing from Georgia to Florida while being brown, is being held in detention even though he showed his birth certificate and social security card. Judge says: Yeah, you've done nothing wrong, but ICE said not to release you, so we're sending you to detention camp. That'll teach you to be brown.

Scuttlebutt has it that the ACLU is descending like avenging angels, so hopefully they can get him out of Kafka's The Trial.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-s-born-american-citizen-under-ice-hold-in-florida-after-driving-from-georgia/ar-AA1D8tQm

#ICE has swept up a natural born citizen. He is ESL (first language: Tzotzil) and of indigenous Mexican heritage. He made the mistake of traveling from (checks notes) Georgia to Florida.

https://www.latintimes.com/ice-refuses-release-us-citizen-detained-despite-showing-birth-certificate-581103

ICE is going after US citizens, not in some future, but today. ICE is breaking US law. The American people may be fully within their rights to defend themselves against ICE in whatever ways a reasonable person would do so. georgiarecorder.com/2025/04/17/g... #USpol #ice #TrumpTrafficking

U.S.-born man from Georgia hel...

ICE is going after US citizens, not in some future, but today.

ICE is breaking US law, and as such, the American people may be fully within their rights to defend themselves against ICE in whatever ways a reasonable person would do so.

https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/04/17/georgia-born-man-held-for-ice-under-floridas-new-anti-immigration-law/

Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People

https://www.404media.co/leaked-palantirs-plan-to-help-ice-deport-people/

ICE questions Amtrak passengers in Havre Montana about citizenship
#ICE #Montana #HavreMT #HavreMontana #Amtrak
https://www.havredailynews.com/story/2025/04/17/local/ice-questions-amtrak-passengers-in-havre-about-citizenship/547792.html

"Reminiscent of Hitler’s grotesque propaganda, where Jews were cast as vermin, stripped of their humanity so that no one would care when they were disappeared, the Trump apparatus is manufacturing the same cruelty, recast for modern America. The new 'vermin' are the immigrants. The undocumented. The vulnerable. The desperate."

~ Michael Cohen

#Trump #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #Nazis #dehumanization #lies
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/when-silence-wins-everyone-else-loses

Powerful letter to America from Salvadoran journalists who were chased out of their own country by #NayibBukele explaining how we got here and what it is that #ElSalvador is exporting to the US. Contains a good summary of Bukele's rise for those new to the saga of bitcoin fascism.

(El Faro and its journalists were forced to relocate to Costa Rica after facing years of harassment and intimidation for reporting critically on “The World’s Coolest Dictator”)

https://elfaro.net/en/202505/opinion/27813/beware-the-ides-of-april-nayib-bukele-exports-contempt-for-the-law

more on bukele from me: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114207719623689935

Fascinating 2021 reporting from El Salvador's exiled opposition newspaper El Faro (they were forced to flee to Costa Rica a few years ago after criticizing the "world's coolest dictator") about a cabal of Venezuelans who are part of the Bukele regime.

Hits different now that the US is using El Salvador's #CECOT prison as a penal colony to house #Venezuelans...

* spanish: https://elfaro.net/es/202106/el_salvador/25520/El-gabinete-oculto-de-venezolanos-que-gobierna-con-Bukele-y-su-familia.htm
* machine translation: https://elfaro-net.translate.goog/es/202106/el_salvador/25520/El-gabinete-oculto-de-venezolanos-que-gobierna-con-Bukele-y-su-familia.htm?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true

Also while I'm here I'll mention that El Faro is an incredible resource for investigative reporting on Bukele and as a bonus they also publish an English language version (creatively titled "El Faro English"): https://elfaro.net/en?ref=home