Maryland Democrat says he met with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

At least the guy is still alive and healthy. For now.
Bukele still refuses to release him because fuck him in particular, but at least he's still confirmed alive.
- alive and healthy does not include mental health
  a lot of broken people are alive and healthy
- Honestly, I hope we save our democracy and then do a precision air strike on just him with the sword missile.
  People don't like him I'm his own country from what I'm hearing. Nobody calls him the cool dictator. These MF are giving themselves nicknames which is even more pathetic.
  
  Sword missile:

Wow. So amazing how weak and feckless trump is. He could not, with all the executive branch, ascertain what one us senator could. And it was super easy. Barely and inconvenience.
- I understand that reference!
  
  understanding references is tight!
- all US senators are able to get on a private jet and go anywhere
  privilege is not an accomplishment
  
  So can the president.

Finally a semblance of good news - confirmation of life. I'm not holding my breath that the Trump Administration will do anything to get him back, though.

What the fuck was that picture Van Hollen sent out? Like, if you only saw the photo of Garcia talking with Van Hollen at that table you would think he's totally fine and just on a vacation down there. Where was Garcia's prison uniform, the cell he was staying in, his cellmates, the armed guards escorting him, the shackles etc., any kind of stuff that might tell us how his day to day life has actually been down there? Letting the guards clean up what they've been doing to him, stick him in civilian clothes, and bring him to a fancy hotel to meet with Van Hollen was all propaganda bullshit and this senator signal boosted it.
I'm really grateful he went down there and got this meeting, but posting that misleading picture was dumb.
- There were likely a few preplanned and staged pictures the Senator was allowed to take of Abrego Garcia at all. The Senator wanted to prove that he was alive.
  
  Ugh, the fact that people are referring to these pre-planned and staged pictures as proof of anything shows the damage this did.
  These pictures don't prove anything, Garcia could be dead in those pictures and they could have taken him to a goddamn taxidermist and posed him. The fact that a US lawmaker who seems to not be a fascist moron says he met with Garcia and Garcia is alive is proof, but those photos are pure bullshit that don't tell us anything and should not have been shared.

The biggest news out of this meeting is that Sen. Van Hollen reports that Abrego Garcia was transferred out of CECOT to another prison last week:
Van Hollen said Abrego Garcia said he had been “traumatized” by being at El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, and fearful of detainees in other cell blocks “who called out to him and taunted him in various ways.”
Abrego Garcia said he was transferred last week to a different detention center with better conditions, but still had no ability to communicate with anyone outside the facility, the senator said.
The public pressure on this is working. The mere fact that Bukele felt the need to try to stage a photo op by the swimming pool of a luxury hotel means that he cares about appearances. Let's keep the pressure on.

Fuck you Chris Van Hollen for making a trip just to get votes later and if that is not the case then why the fuck could not just have given a ride
Sure that private jet you flew in on had the space and bet your in flight meal is better than his gulag soup
Want to see a politician that really goes the extra fucking mile and stays the fuck there until they leave with him
- Keyboard warrior strikes again!
  
  You're calling the kettle black in the middle of the cookware aisle here, we're all "keyboard warriors," you just don't like this one's opinion
  
  Mom's basement bunker defends against all kinds of threats, including inclement weather, rabid dogs and not the least of all, internet blowback!
  
  yes because in our downtime from defending democracy we activists use a keyboard
  even in our free time we still do not give up dreaming
- If he'd tried to forcibly secure Garcia's release that would very likely set off an insane chain of consequences we haven't made adequate preparations for. Like, if nothing else, Van Hollen would be a fugitive from the American government at that point because there's no way any American court would let a Senator start doing commander in chief stuff like that.
  Want to see a politician that really goes the extra fucking mile and stays the fuck there until they leave with him
  I tend to agree, but we need all the votes in the US Senate we can get right now, so I think Van Hollen's a bad person to do this. A quick online search tells me there's a decent margin in the Maryland state Senate though, so one of those lawmakers could camp down there and keep pushing this.
- Why should he try to smuggle him back into the country? According to the situation, Garcia is officially in Salvadorian custody. An operation like this affords more sensitivity.
  I am sure Van Hollen has already made plans for Garcias return, and surely that's what they have been talking about. But this needs to be decided in court or achieved by lawyers.
  If nothing happens from now on, okay then fuck him
  
  To be honest, I half hope another country sends in an extraction team to get him out and then offers him and his family asylum. It probably won't happen, but I can dream.
  
  typical Democrat response
  but we talked and made plans to talk more and make more plans and we would do more but Republicans
  apathetic but appear to be actively doing something about it while appearing to care when in reality your thumbs are so deep in shit the smell and the stains will never go away