Maryland Democrat Ivey furious not given access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

A Maryland congressman has returned to the U.S. from El Salvador having failed successful his effort to conscionable deported illegal migrant and suspected MS-13 pack subordinate Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Rep. Glenn Ivey said helium was "stonewalled" successful his efforts to cheque connected the payment of Abrego Garcia, whose deportation successful March has go a profoundly polarizing contented for Republicans and Democrats. The Trump medication accuses Abrego Garcia of besides being a quality trafficker and a woman beater, while Democrats accidental helium is simply a "Maryland man" who was not fixed his owed process successful tribunal earlier being deported. 

"I was very, not conscionable disappointed, but angry, actually," Ivey told reporters aft returning from his travel Tuesday morning. 

Rep. Glenn Ivey speaks during a property league to stock insights from his sojourn to El Salvador, apical right, Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, bottommost right.  While successful El Salvador, helium met quality rights defenders and assemblage leaders.  (Truth Social, left, Camilo Freedman/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images, apical right, Fox News, bottommost left,)

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Ivey, who said helium did not usage payer wealth to money his trip, said helium had arranged with embassies successful the U.S. and successful El Salvador to conscionable Abrego Garcia successful situation but was met with bureaucratic hurdles erstwhile helium got there. Ivey said helium was told helium had to get a licence astatine a determination 90 minutes away, which blocked his plans.

"And I won't archer you what I said, but I mean, it's ridiculous that an planetary delegation would get that benignant of treatment, particularly erstwhile we're making this benignant of request," Ivey said. 

WATCH: Democrat Rep. Glenn Ivey fumes helium was not allowed entree to Kilmar Abrego Garcia

He didn’t accidental if helium attempted to get a licence but added that locals besides told them nary one—not adjacent families—were getting permits to sojourn loved ones successful detention.

"It was a wide tally astir and not a mode that a overseas authorities should beryllium treating the Congress of the United States," helium said.

Ivey said helium wanted to spot Abrego Garcia to corroborate the detainee’s condition, determination and guarantee helium receives owed process successful U.S. courts. Several different Democrats, including Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, person rushed to conscionable with Abrego Garcia and decried what they said was a deficiency of owed process extended to him.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen meets with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia astatine an undisclosed determination connected April 17, 2025, successful San Salvador. (Sen. Van Hollen's Office via Getty Images)

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When asked astir Abrego Garcia's condition, Ivey told reporters, "Nothing's been confirmed on those lines. We judge helium is and we judge he's astatine Santa Ana. But they didn't corroborate that yesterday. So it was benignant of a runaround."

In a video posted to X connected Monday, Ivey wrote that helium traveled to the Central American state to sojourn his "constituent" and called connected the authorities determination to "cut the crap."

Abrego Garcia was sent successful March to El Salvador's notoriously high-security situation equipped to grip convulsive pack members, known arsenic CECOT, which sparked Van Hollen to pb the surge of Democrats traveling there. The Trump administration has repeatedly cited tribunal and constabulary documents showing that the El Salvadoran antheral was not lone successful the U.S. illegally, but besides connected to the MS-13 pack and that his woman had sounded the alarm to constabulary astir his violence.

Court records amusement Abrego Garcia's wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, filed a protective bid against her hubby successful August 2020. The bid said their shared lad and stepchildren needed extortion from Abrego Garcia, accusing him of verbal and carnal maltreatment against her and intelligence maltreatment against her children. 

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the woman of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, speaks with Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., extracurricular the United States District Court successful Greenbelt, Maryland, connected May 16, 2025.  (Michael A. McCoy for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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Some Democrats and left-wing media person characterized Abrego Garcia arsenic a "family man" who was wrongly deported backmost successful March and the pursuing weeks. 

Ivey, meanwhile, besides railed implicit what helium said were much than 250 Venezuelans jailed successful El Salvador aft deportation from the U.S., claiming that astir 50 of them person nary transgression records and were sent to a state wherever they person nary pending offenses. 

"That's un-American. That's not what we should beryllium doing," Ivey said. 

Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.