About 75 people carried signs and chanted “Free Kilmar Garcia Now” Monday as they rallied in front of the El Salvadorian Consulate in Silver Spring.
Don Maclean listed the rally on the website Indivisible.org, because he believes Kilmar Abrego Garcia was taken without any due process of the law. He said that if it can happen to this father of two, it could happen to anyone in America.
Robin Matthewman, a retired Department of State employee, said the United States has given El Salvador “billions of dollars” since the 1960s. “We, as taxpayers, have done so much for them,” she said, adding, “The U.S. has supported El Salvador through war and peace.”
That is why it bothers her so much that the government of El Salvador is holding Americans without any due process.
U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen recently traveled to El Salvador and met with Garcia. On Monday, U.S. Reps. Maxwell Frost of Florida, Robert Carcia of California, Yassamin Ansari of Arizona and Maxine Dexter of Oregon, who are all Democrats, were in El Salvador hoping “to facilitate Garcia’s return to the United States,” they said in a statement.
I’m now in El Salvador with a congressional delegation working to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Trump is defying the Supreme Court to bring him home. We know others are being deported and held with no due process. This must end. pic.twitter.com/nW1OBThWzI
— Congressman Robert Garcia (@RepRobertGarcia) April 21, 2025
Chair Comer denied our request for an official trip to El Salvador to advocate for due process and the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Pretty shameful.
Good thing I don’t need Comer’s permission to get on a plane. pic.twitter.com/9mocM8OfjD
— Maxwell Alejandro Frost (@MaxwellFrostFL) April 20, 2025
