By Katherine Tinsley
2:33am PDT, Apr 18, 2025
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Donald Trump's administration called Kilmar Abrego Garcia's detainment "an administrative error," but they have yet to make an effort to bring the Maryland man back to the U.S.
Chris Van Hollen accused the Trump administration of "abducting" Garcia. He then traveled to El Salvador to personally conduct a "welfare check."
On Thursday, April 17, Van Hollen said that he was stopped at a checkpoint and denied entry into the El Salvador prison holding Abrego Garcia.
"They stopped us because they are under orders not to allow us to proceed," he said in a press conference.
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Toman Homan shared his outrage on Fox & Friends.
"He wasn't abducted," Homan told Lawrence Jones on Wednesday, April 16. "He is an MS-13 gang member. Classified as a terrorist. That was removed from this country. So we got rid of a dangerous person, an El Salvadorian national, returned to the country of El Salvador to his home."
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia was accused of having ties to MS-13, but he was stripped of his due process rights before a formal trial could take place.
"We removed him from the United States — a public safety threat — exactly what should have happened," Tom Homan alleged.
"I'm just as disgusted that any congressional representative is going to run [to] El Salvador to his aid when yesterday I read in his state [Maryland], an illegal alien charged with murder was released back into the community and an ICE detainer wasn't honored and ICE had to go find him," he said.
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Despite Tom Homan's claims, the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump's team must bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S.
"Tonight, the rule of law prevailed," Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of Abrego Garcia's attorneys, said in a statement at the time. "The Supreme Court upheld the District Judge's order that the government has to bring Kilmar home. Now they need to stop wasting time and get moving."
The Trump admin has so far ignored the order.
