Rep. Robert Garcia speaks to the media about Kilmar Abrego Garcia at a hotel in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Monday, April 21. (AP/Salvador Melendez)
Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old immigrant who crossed the border illegally, settled in Maryland and obtained protected legal status, was deported to El Salvador last month. Officials acknowledged in court his deportation was an administrative error, although now some top Trump officials say he was correctly removed and contend he's a member of the notorious MS-13 gang.
Frost said Monday that the traveling Democrats "formally requested" to meet with Abrego Garcia but "we were told at our meeting that the government here has denied our request to see him because this is not an official trip."
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"We are also worried about our own constituents; we represent people across the entire nation," Frost told reporters in El Salvador. "We are getting hundreds and hundreds of calls – people saying 'Go to El Salvador, do something, do something about the fact that president of the United States in the Oval Office is talking about sending U.S. citizens here to El Salvador to the prison here.'"
ABREGO GARCIA TRANSFERRED FROM NOTORIOUS EL SALVADORAN MEGA-PRISON
Kilmar Abrego Garcia meets with Sen. Van Hollen in El Salvador last week. (X/@ChrisVanHollen)
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"Their presence sends a powerful message: the fight to bring Kilmar home isn’t over," she said.
Fox News' Greg Wehner and Tyler Olson contributed to this report.
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
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