Liberals: help me understand the Kilmar Abrego Garcia situation

This is in regards to the guy from El Salvador that has been illegally living in the United States for a while now, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I don't know the specific details and am not well-versed in this despite reading a bit up on it. I ask for other opinions here because I want to be informed and even though I try to avoid it, I am aware that I am going to end up receiving biased information no matter where I look.

If you don't know who Garcia is, perhaps this photos will jog your memory

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This is a picture of a Senator from Maryland visiting Garcia in El Salvador. The Senator is someone you probably have never heard of named Chris Van Hollen. I know I have never heard of the guy even though being a Senator is kind of a big deal and Maryland is only about 5 hours drive away from where I live.

I find the picture quite amusing and can't help but feel as though they selected clothing to make Garcia look as not gangster-looking as possible. They also made sure his tattoo covered hands were under the table for the photos and had him dressed in clothes that made him look as innocuous as possible.

The man was living in the United States illegally, and was deported. Should that not be the end of the conversation? If I was overseas and staying in that country without a visa and they caught me, I would expect to be forced to leave, wouldn't you?

But this is being seriously debated by certain members of Congress who all have (D) next to their name and several of them have flown down to El Salvador to demand that this man, who is NOT a US Citizen be returned to the United States.

I have empathy towards the fact that he has children in the United States but with all the family-building going on, there are also accounts of two separate judges determining that he is a MS-13 gang leader, and that he has ties to human-trafficking as well. None of this has been proven as far as I can tell because he would be in jail if it were, and I also don't think it is especially important to this case. The fact of the matter is that he was living in the US illegally and to me that is basically the end of the story, is it not?

I employ a lot of Mexican and other Latin American immigrants on my various job sites for construction here in North Carolina. I rarely discuss anything politically oriented with them because I don't want to create a difficult work environment. But several of the people that have been working with me for years have said that they believe deporting him was the correct move but they may be saying this because all of them went through the arduous process of coming,living, and staying here LEGALLY. They may actually dislike illegal immigrants even more than people who were born in the US, because they had to do so much in order to stay here legally.

I feel that Van Hollen is doing this for his own personal gain and this could end up backfiring on him massively.

I am also, as a conservative, willing to admit that I probably don't have all the correct information even though I really do try to get both sides to the story.

So I know there are a few liberal-oriented people out there that are capable of having calm and sane conversations with someone that doesn't see eye-to-eye with them politically and I would like it if you could give me a real opinion about this and perhaps help me to understand why these politicians would be selecting this particular case to be in the forefront.

I'm not here to lecture anyone or to change anyone's mind. I just want to try to understand the real argument for this situation, if there even is one.