U.S. senator meets wrongly deported man in El Salvador amid court fight

Supreme Court has directed Trump administration to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return

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Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen, right, meets Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador on April 17. (Senator Chris Van Hollen via X/Handout via Reuters)

(Reuters) -- Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen met on Thursday with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador in a case that has pitted a defiant Trump administration against the courts and fanned the prospect of a constitutional conflict.

The senator posted on X an image of himself in El Salvador with Abrego Garcia, dressed in a collared shirt, jeans and a baseball cap, a day after being denied access to the notorious prison for gang members where he has been held.

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