Maryland Rep. Glenn Ivey said he was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia ​after he traveled to El Salvador to check on the man who was mistakenly deported from the U.S. in March.

Maryland Rep. Glenn Ivey said he was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia after he traveled to El Salvador to check on him. Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported from the U.S. in March.

The Salvadoran government knew we were coming to see him. We notified their embassy in Washington, local officials, and our own ambassador to the country. Yet, they shut us out.”

Congressman Glenn Ivey went to El Salvador over the holiday weekend to try to see the man who has become a symbol of Donald Trump's deportation regime.

SAN SALVADOR — The gang name was scrawled onto classroom desks and written on bathroom walls. At the school where Kilmar Abrego García spent most of his adolescence, the students all knew who was in charge of the neighborhood: MS-13.

A Maryland man’s deportation to El Salvador set off a fierce debate among officials in three cabinet agencies, despite agreement there had been a mistake.

GREENBELT, MARYLAND — A federal judge said May 16 the Trump administration has “pretty broadly” invoked the state secrets privilege to withhold information on its efforts — or, the judge indicated, a possible lack of effort — to return a wrongly deported Maryland man from a prison in El Salvador.