Reps. Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Robert Garcia (D-CA), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ, and Maxine Dexter (D-OR) traveled to El Salvador to visit alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego-Garcia.
Frost told MSNBC that El Salvador denied them a visit because it was not an official trip:
Well, we’re actually about to do a press conference to speak a little bit about this. But we got word at the embassy that our request has been denied by the government here locally. They say it’s because we’re not here on an official capacity.This is part of the reason why representative Robert Garcia and I sent a letter to Chairman Comer of the Oversight Committee asking for this to be an official trip but we’re not giving up. We’re going to continue. We have more meetings scheduled for the rest of the day.But part of this, too, is making sure that we keep the conversation alive. We’re building off of the trip of Senator Van Hollan and we’re not the first members.
Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer explained to Fox News why he did not approve of the trip:
Well, I had two members of the House Oversight Committee, Garcia from California and Frost from Florida, and they sat there silent during the entire Biden investigation, during the entire investigation of border patrol and Mayorkas that we had in the Oversight Committee. If anything, they were obstructive. They weren’t concerned. They showed no concern for the lack of our national security or the violation of our southern border security laws. But then this one person that the liberal media picked up on that was deported to El Salvador, they went crazy before it came out that he was actually an MS-13 gang member and they wanted me to authorize funding at my committee’s expense to send them down to El Salvador and meet with this person for a photo op and to have margaritas and enjoy the sunny weather. And I obviously denied the request. We’re not going to spend a penny of taxpayer dollars for liberal Democrats to continue their stunts to try to appease the radical left wing base when the American people spoke loud and clear on Election Day. They want our southern border secured, and they want criminal illegals deported.
Abrego-Garcia’s wife accused him of domestic abuse a few times. The Tennessee Patrol suspected him of human trafficking. Officials had enough evidence to call him an MS-13 member.
I also guess we know that taxpayers paid for Sen. Chris Hollen (D-MD) visit to El Salvador where he met Abrego-Garcia and had margaritas.
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