Kilmar Abrego Garcia, right, and his brother Cesar Abrego Garcia, center, arrive at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
"Instead of spewing unproven allegations on social media, they need to put up or shut up IN COURT," he went on, adding, "Mr. Ábrego García must be allowed to defend himself."
This follows Salvadoran Abrego Garcia being released from federal custody on Friday in Tennessee, where he was being held pending his trial for charges of human smuggling of illegal immigrants in the U.S.
Earlier this year, Abrego Garcia was deported by the Trump administration to his home country of El Salvador, but after Democratic uproar over an alleged lack of due process and a Supreme Court ruling ordering his return, he was eventually returned to the U.S. to stand trial.
According to an earlier X post by Van Hollen, the senator met with Abrego Garcia virtually on Sunday to discuss his "long and torturous nightmare" of being deported and standing trial for human smuggling.
'MARYLAND MAN' KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA EXPOSED IN POLICE RECORDS AS 'VIOLENT' REPEAT WIFE BEATER
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, has been an aggressive critic of President Trump during her time in Congress. (Julia Beverly/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, a prominent Democratic voice and vocal Trump critic, also drilled into the administration, saying, "Let’s be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no sense—it’s not his home country."
"Nothing about this process has been fair," she wrote. "ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice."
Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., who joined a rally advocating for Abrego Garcia earlier on Monday, wrote that "Mr. Abrego Garcia must not be sent to some third party country like Uganda."
Ivey wrote that "the people united will continue to seek justice for Kilmar!"
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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
"The Trump Administration will never apologize for fulfilling our promise to deport criminal illegal aliens," said Jackson.
Chris Newman, an attorney for Abrego Garcia’s family, categorically denied DHS' allegations, telling Fox News Digital, "None of those things are true, full stop."
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"The problem here is that the administration is trying its hardest to litigate this case through the media, as opposed to through courts of law," said Newman.
He said that "in essence" what the Trump administration has done "is to use the highest office in the land to blackmail an innocent man into sacrificing his constitutional rights."
"And we've been fighting against that both and winning in court even as the Trump administration insists on polluting the public debate with lies."
In an emailed statement sent to Fox News Digital, Ivey accused Trump of ignoring the law.
"When I prosecuted, MS 13 cases, we indicted, tried the case, won the convictions, sentence them to jail time, and did not support them until after they had served jail their sentence," said Ivey. "That way, we followed the constitution and the law. The Trump administration is ignoring both. They want to deport them without giving them the day in court that the Supreme Court has required. And they want to jail them indefinitely even though they haven’t been convicted of a crime. That’s wrong and I’ll continue to fight against it."
Fox News Digital's Breanne Deppisch contributed to this report.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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