A now-fired Maryland police officer authored the 2019 gang report referencing an El Salvador man sent to a notorious prison by mistake.

More Democrats have said they will fly to El Salvador to push for his release, but the partisan pressure hasn’t yielded any results.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is recounting the chronology of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s travel to El Salvador, saying he told him he was initially taken to Baltimore, then Texas, then put on a plane with “no idea where he was going.

A retired acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director said Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was deported to the terrorist confinement center (CECOT) in El Salvador, will be removed again if he is approved to return to the U.S. “Let’s start where it is operationally, if he comes back to the United States,…

Van Hollen, 66, got his start in politics as a staffer for former Maryland U.S. Sen. Charles Mathias in the 1980s, going on to staff the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and, later, Maryland Gov. William Donald Schaefer.