Arizona Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari plans to travel to El Salvador in an attempt to visit with a wrongly deported immigrant.
On Wednesday, government officials in El Salvador refused to allow Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident who the Trump administration admitted was removed from the U.S. due to an administrative error.
Ansari told BBC News she’s undeterred.
“I think Republicans should be going, Democrats should be going to see what is going on,” she said. “But our goal is to make a trip as effective as possible, to draw attention to this issue, because the truth is, if this can happen to Kilmar Garcia, it can happen to anyone in the United States.”
Ansari criticized what she called President Donald Trump’s “war” on the constitutional right to due process, which is granted to everyone in the U.S., including those without legal status.
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