US Senator Visits Abrego Garcia, Florida State University Shooting, Fed Independence
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What happened during the US Senator's visit to Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador?
A U.S. senator traveled to El Salvador to visit the man illegally deported there by the Trump administration.
My mission today was simply to see how his health is, what his condition is.
Is he any closer to returning to the U.S.?
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Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen held a face-to-face meeting with Kilmer Abrego Garcia yesterday.
He's the Salvadoran citizen who lived in Maryland for about 15 years before the administration illegally deported him last month. Now he's being held in a notorious mega prison in El Salvador where the administration is sending people deported from the U.S. Now the White House insists he will not be returning to the U.S. despite a federal judge's order to facilitate his return.
Joining us with the latest is NPR's Ryland Barton. Good morning, Ryland.
Hi, Leila.
Okay, so Senator Van Hollen says Salvadoran officials initially refused to let him meet with Ebreko Garcia, and then we see a meeting happened. What changed?
Yeah, so we know very little about how exactly the meeting happened, but in an interview yesterday on All Things Considered, Van Hollen said soldiers had initially prevented him from reaching the prison.
What are the legal challenges surrounding Kilmar Abrego Garcia's deportation?
I was stopped by soldiers about three kilometers out who said they'd been ordered not to allow me to go see him. My mission today was simply to see how his health is, what his condition is.
So later in the day, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, tweeted that Van Hollen had met with Abrego Garcia and said that since Abrego Garcia had been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador's custody. The senator then tweeted out a picture of the two of them sitting at a table and said he had called Abrego Garcia's wife to pass along a message of love. In a statement, White House spokesman Kush Desai said the meeting showed Democrats were prioritizing the welfare of what he called an illegal alien MS-13 terrorist. The Trump administration has repeatedly said Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13, which is a transnational gang. But Abrego Garcia's lawyers dispute that, pointing to the fact that he doesn't even have a criminal record in the U.S.,
Now, there was yet another court ruling against the Trump administration's handling of Abrego Garcia yesterday. What did it say?
Yeah, so the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals tore into the administration, saying they are, quote, "...asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process." Judge J. Harvey Wilkinson, who was appointed by President Reagan, headed up that three-judge panel.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What happened during the US Senator's visit to Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador?
0:03–2:59
2
What are the legal challenges surrounding Kilmar Abrego Garcia's deportation?
2:59–7:22
3
What occurred during the Florida State University shooting incident?
7:22–8:21
4
Who is the suspect involved in the FSU shooting and what is known about him?
8:21–9:14
5
How did Florida State University students experience the shooting lockdown?
9:14
6
What are the economic concerns about President Trump's pressure on the Federal Reserve?
0:43–0:51
7
Why is Federal Reserve independence important according to economists?
0:51–16:20
Speakers
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