US Senate rejects bid for transparency on El Salvador deportations
Source: Reuters
US Senate rejects bid for transparency on El Salvador deportations
Patricia Zengerle
Thu, May 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM EDT·3 min read
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republicans on Thursday defeated a Democratic resolution calling for a review of human rights in El Salvador, focusing on conditions at a maximum-security prison holding people deported from the United States.
The measure was defeated 50-45, with senators voting along party lines. It had not been expected to pass the chamber, where President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans have a 53-47-seat majority, but Democrats said they wanted to get Republicans on the record about the high-profile issue.
The resolution, whose backers included Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, centered on the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who was mistakenly deported from Maryland and remains imprisoned in El Salvador.
Abrego Garcia, 29, who was living in Maryland with a work permit, was detained by U.S. immigration officers in March and questioned about alleged gang ties before being sent on a deportation flight to El Salvador with Venezuelan migrants despite a protective order allowing him to remain in the U.S.
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