Sen. Chris Van Hollen joined the family of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after he returned from El Salvador and pushed the administration to bring the man back to the U.S.

"I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance," the senator said on social media.

Both the Maryland senator and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele posted photos on social media showing Van Hollen meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

But Salvadoran President Bukele says Kilmar Ábrego García - who is at the centre of a US court battle - will stay in custody.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen shared more details about his trip to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.

"I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar," Van Hollen said in a post on ... and that he just wanted to meet with Abrego Garcia. The senator was also told he could not be promised ...

A Maryland man wrongly deported to a notoriously violent prison in El Salvador told a U.S. senator that he was traumatized by the experience.

Van Hollen spoke in Washington upon his return from El Salvador to discuss his trip, including his meeting with Abrego Garcia.

That senator, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, accused El Salvador’s government on Friday of aiming to paint the picture of a leisurely respite for the wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia by staging ...

on Thursday evening posted an image showing him meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia ... keep him at CECOT,” the senator said. Bukele posted several photos of Van Hollen’s meeting with Abrego ...

Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) met Thursday in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego ... his attempts to meet with Abrego García or speak with him by phone. Then on Thursday, the senator reported that ...

Chris Van Hollen met Thursday with Kilmar Abrego Garcia ... Despite the senator eventually being allowed to meet with Abrego Garcia, he remains in El Salvador in custody as of early this morning.