House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) denied a request from two House Democrats to go on a congressional trip to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an imprisoned Salvadoran national mistakenly deported by the Trump administration.

Another House Republican committee chair said Friday he will not grant Democrats' request to lead a congressional delegation to El Salvador to check on the status of deportees being held there. Why it matters: Republicans sent their own official delegation to the country this week to visit the notorious maximum security prison housing deportees and express their support for President Trump's deportation policies.